How to transfer file from ec2 to s3

Question

I have files in my ec2 instance and i want to move those file to s3. How can i do that? Can someone help?

Answer 1

I'm using s3cmd to store nightly exported database backup files from my ec2 instance. After configuration of s3cmd, which you can read about at their site, you can then run a command like:

s3cmd put ./myfile s3://mybucket