💡 Use the --dryrun flag at the end of any command to see what would happen without actually downloading any data. If you'd like to dive deeper into specific CLI tasks: Automating downloads with cron jobs Presigning URLs for temporary access Optimizing performance for multi-terabyte transfers
If the bucket owner has "Requester Pays" enabled, you must acknowledge that you will incur the data transfer costs. download s3 data using cli
aws s3 cp s3://my-bucket-name/folder/ ./local-folder/ --recursive 2. Using aws s3 sync 💡 Use the --dryrun flag at the end
AWS offers two main ways to download data: cp (copy) and sync . 1. Using aws s3 cp such as only downloading CSVs.
You can use include and exclude patterns to download specific file types, such as only downloading CSVs.