Here’s an easy way to move data in and out of Amazon S3

Cyberduck is an FTP app for MacOS and Windows that also connects to S3 object storage. It provides a nice graphicall way to handle data in S3

Click on Open Connection to create a new connection

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Select S3, then enter your Access Key and Secret Access Key for your IAM user

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Once done you can see a list of all the S3 buckets in that account

Note: you can only open the ones the IAM user has access to.

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Bonus! S3 storage classes

To see the S3 storage class, right click on the red underlined section and ensure Storage Class is ticked

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Then there will be a column showing the storage class of each object

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To move an object to a different storage class, right click on an object and select info

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Then in the info window select S3

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There is also a section to create basic lifecycle rules to transition objects into Glacier or delete them after a set number of days