I have a bucket already created but I want to create new folders inside this bucket, not upload data or anything else, just create new folders. How can I do this ?
Thanks
AWS S3 doesn't really have a first class concept of a "folder" or "directory". S3 objects have prefixes, which are segmented by slashes, so there is certainly the appearance of folders, but it is not possible to have a truly empty directory structure.
However, their AWS Console user experience does present content as such, and provides a button to "Create Folder". When using that button, the UI provides the below message:
When you create a folder, S3 console creates an object with the above
name appended by suffix "/" and that object is displayed as a folder
in the S3 console.
You could try using PowerShell's Put Object API/cmdlet to create empty objects named per that instruction. For example, you could create a folder named "my-new-folder" by creating an object named "my-new-folder/".
S3 is object storage; it's not a regular file system. Generally speaking, there is no need to attempt to create folders. Simply upload objects, for example teams/east/falcons/logo.png.
If you really, really want to give the impression that there are folders then you can create zero-sized objects whose names ends in / (or whatever your preferred folder delimiter is). The simplest way to do this is with the AWS S3 console but any SDK will let you do it too (simply issue a PutObject with no body).
I was seaching for this myself and found this.
use -content where content = key then -file or -folder are not needed
$s3Path = "/folder/" + 'subfolder/'
Write-S3Object -BucketName $s3Bucket -Key $s3Path -Content $s3Path
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I have a powershell script, that downloads all files form an S3 bucket, and then removes the files from the bucket. All the files I'm removing are stored in a subfolder in the S3 bucket, and I just want to delete the files but maintain the subfolders.
I'm currently using the following command to delete the files in S3 once the file has been downloaded from S3.
Remove-S3Object -BucketName $S3Bucket -Key $key -Force
My problem is that if it removes all the files in the subfolder, the subfolder is removed as well. Is there a way to remove the file, but keep the subfolder present using powerhsell. I believe I can do something like this,
aws s3 rm s3://<key_to_be_removed> --exclude "<subfolder_key>"
but not quite sure if that'll work.
I'm looking for the best way to accomplish this, and at the moment, my only option is to recreate the subfolder via the script if the subfolder not longer exists.
The only way to accomplish having an empty folder is to create a zero-length object which has the same name as the folder you want to keep. This is actually how the S3 console enables you to create an empty folder.
You can check this by running $ aws s3 ls s3://your-bucket/folderfoo/ and observing an output object having length of zero bytes.
See more on this topic here.
As already commented, S3 does not really have folders the way file systems do. The folders as presented by most S3 browsers are just generated based on the paths of the files/objects. If you upload an object/file named folder/file, the browsers will present folder as folder with file as a file in the folder. But technically, all that there is is the file/object folder/file. The folder does not exist on its own.
You can explicitly create a folder by creating an empty empty-named object with "in the folder": folder/. If you do that, it will appear the the folder exists even if there are no files in it. But if you do not do that, the virtual folder disappears once you remove all objects in the folder.
Now the question is whether your command removes even the empty named object representing the folder or not. I cannot tell that.
I have some old uploaded S3 objects that were supposed to be in a subfolder/filename format, but mistakenly used a backslash which made the subfolder part of the actual object's filename.
Using the aws cli, how will I be able to recursively run through all my objects that have a backslash (folder\file), make a new subfolder with the foldername, and place the object with the correct filename inside (folder/file)?
From this
bucket
folder1\file1
folder1\file2
folder1\file3
To this
bucket
folder1
file1
file2
file3
S3 does not have "folders", it only has "keys".
You need to list all the objects and then copy the object to a key with proper / in it, e.g. folder1/file1, then you can delete the old file. There is no move operation in S3. And you will not need to create a folder. "Folders" only exist within the aws web console since they are needed for human interaction.
We know that in S3 objects, the folder path is just a part of the object key itself.
Having an object structure similar to the following:
/files/user/09874/01/
/files/user/09875/01/
/files/user/09875/02/
/files/user/09876/01/
/files/user/09876/02/
What kind of operation would you recommend to rename the parent /files/ to /something/, having in mind that there are thousands of files and that the number of requests should be the cheapest/minimum?
(with the following docs under consideration)
As you said prefix are part of the file name. Unfortunately, The only way that i can think of is to iterate the list of objects and move to the new prefix.
in cli:
aws s3 mv --recursive s3://bucket/files s3://bucket/something/
I am trying to list all items with specific prefix in S3 bucket. Here is directory structure that I have:
Item1/
Item2/
Item3/
Item4/
image_1.jpg
Item5/
image_1.jpg
image_2.jpg
When I set prefex to be Item1/Item2, I get as a result following keys:
Item1/Item2/
Item1/Item2/Item3/Item4/image_1.jpg
Item1/Item2/Item3/Item5/image_1.jpg
Item1/Item2/Item3/Item5/image_2.jpg
What I would like to get is:
Item1/Item2/
Item1/Item2/Item3
Item1/Item2/Item3/Item4
Item1/Item2/Item3/Item5
Item1/Item2/Item3/Item4/image_1.jpg
Item1/Item2/Item3/Item5/image_1.jpg
Item1/Item2/Item3/Item5/image_2.jpg
Is there anyway to achieve this in golang?
Folders do not actually exist in Amazon S3. It is a flat object storage system.
For example, using the AWS Command-Line Interface (CLI) I could copy a command to an Amazon S3 bucket:
aws s3 cp foo.txt s3://my-bucket/folder1/folder2/foo.txt
This work just fine, even though folder1 and folder2 do not exist. This is because objects are stored with a Key (filename) that includes the full path of the object. So, the above object actually has a Key (filename) of:
folder1/folder2/foo.txt
However, to make things easier for humans, the Amazon S3 management console makes it appear as though there are folders. In S3, these are called Common Prefixes rather than folders.
So, when you make an API call to list the contents of the bucket while specifying a Prefix, it simply says "List all objects whose Key starts with this string".
Your listing doesn't show any folders because they don't actually exist.
Now, just to contradict myself, it actually is possible to create a folder (eg by clicking Create folder in the management console). This actually creates a zero-length object with the same name as the folder. The folder will then appear in listings because it is actually listing the zero-length object rather than the folder.
This is probably why Item1/Item2/ appears in your listing, but Item1/Item2/Item3 does not. Somebody, at some stage, must have "created a folder" called Item1/Item2/, which actually created a zero-length object with that Key.
There seems to be some inconsistency in Amazon S3's behavior.
If in bucket a "Bucket1", I create folder "Folder1" and upload a file say "sample.txt" into it. Next I delete this file. At the bucket level I can see "Folder1" on S3 Console.
Now in the same bucket if I upload a file "Folder2/sample.txt" and just delete sample.txt file, then Folder2 also disappears from console?
Why this inconsistency? AFAIK we do not have any API to create/delete folder at SDK level.
Am I missing something here or is this an actual issue?
Thanks in advance for any help.
A "Folder" in S3 is simply a 0-byte object with a / character at the end of the key name.
So, using the AWS CLI or SDKs, you can "create a folder" by "putting" an object that matches those criteria.
The AWS Management Console also does something extra: it simulates folders, even of they were not explicitly created. So, if you uploaded your object as "Folder2/sample.txt", it extrapolates and simulates "Folder2/" at the parent folder level. You can do this yourself with the CLI/SDKs using the delimiter parameter.
When you delete that object, since "Folder2" did not actually exist as a 0-byte object ending with / (see first paragraph), then "Folder2/" disappears from the management console.