Thursday, 18 December 2025
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I noticed that there does not seem to be an option to download an entire s3 bucket from the AWS Management Console.

Is there an easy way to grab everything in one of my buckets? I was thinking about making the root folder public, using wget to grab it all, and then making it private again but I don't know if there's an easier way.
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AWS CLI
See the "AWS CLI Command Reference" for more information.

AWS recently released their Command Line Tools, which work much like boto and can be installed using


sudo easy_install awscli

or


sudo pip install awscli

Once installed, you can then simply run:


aws s3 sync s3://<source_bucket> <local_destination>

For example:


aws s3 sync s3://mybucket .

will download all the objects in mybucket to the current directory.

And will output:


download: s3://mybucket/test.txt to test.txt
download: s3://mybucket/test2.txt to test2.txt

This will download all of your files using a one-way sync. It will not delete any existing files in your current directory unless you specify --delete, and it won't change or delete any files on S3.

You can also do S3 bucket to S3 bucket, or local to S3 bucket sync.

Check out the documentation and other examples.

Whereas the above example is how to download a full bucket, you can also download a folder recursively by performing


aws s3 cp s3://BUCKETNAME/PATH/TO/FOLDER LocalFolderName --recursive

This will instruct the CLI to download all files and folder keys recursively within the PATH/TO/FOLDER directory within the BUCKETNAME bucket.
8 hours ago
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#329
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AWS CLI
See the "AWS CLI Command Reference" for more information.

AWS recently released their Command Line Tools, which work much like boto and can be installed using


sudo easy_install awscli

or


sudo pip install awscli

Once installed, you can then simply run:


aws s3 sync s3://<source_bucket> <local_destination>

For example:


aws s3 sync s3://mybucket .

will download all the objects in mybucket to the current directory.

And will output:


download: s3://mybucket/test.txt to test.txt
download: s3://mybucket/test2.txt to test2.txt

This will download all of your files using a one-way sync. It will not delete any existing files in your current directory unless you specify --delete, and it won't change or delete any files on S3.

You can also do S3 bucket to S3 bucket, or local to S3 bucket sync.

Check out the documentation and other examples.

Whereas the above example is how to download a full bucket, you can also download a folder recursively by performing


aws s3 cp s3://BUCKETNAME/PATH/TO/FOLDER LocalFolderName --recursive

This will instruct the CLI to download all files and folder keys recursively within the PATH/TO/FOLDER directory within the BUCKETNAME bucket.
8 hours ago
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#330
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You can use s3cmd to download your bucket:


s3cmd --configure
s3cmd sync s3://bucketnamehere/folder /destination/folder

There is another tool you can use called rclone. This is a code sample in the Rclone documentation:


rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:bucket
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I've used a few different methods to copy Amazon S3 data to a local machine, including s3cmd, and by far the easiest is Cyberduck.

All you need to do is enter your Amazon credentials and use the simple interface to download, upload, sync any of your buckets, folders or files.
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The answer by @Layke is good, but if you have a ton of data and don't want to wait forever, you should read "AWS CLI S3 Configuration".

The following commands will tell the AWS CLI to use 1,000 threads to execute jobs (each a small file or one part of a multipart copy) and look ahead 100,000 jobs:


aws configure set default.s3.max_concurrent_requests 1000
aws configure set default.s3.max_queue_size 100000

After running these, you can use the simple sync command:


aws s3 sync s3://source-bucket/source-path s3://destination-bucket/destination-path

or


aws s3 sync s3://source-bucket/source-path c:\my\local\data\path

On a system with CPU 4 cores and 16GB RAM, for cases like mine (3-50GB files) the sync/copy speed went from about 9.5MiB/s to 700+MiB/s, a speed increase of 70x over the default configuration.
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