How to copy the content of an s3 bucket to another s3 bucket using Terraform

Question

Hi Guys,

I have created one s3 bucket and uploaded some files. Now I want to copy all the data to another bucket. But I am not able to find any provisioner in Terraform to do that. Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

There is no resource that enables the copying of objects from one S3 bucket to another. If you want to include this in your Terraform setup then you would need to use a local-exec provisioner.

It would need to execute the command below, with the support of the AWS CLI to run aws s3 cp.

resource "null_resource" "s3_objects" {
  provisioner "local-exec" {
    command = "aws s3 cp s3://bucket1 s3://bucket2 --recursive"
  }
}