AWS

IAM Role based access to S3 bucket.

In one of our projects, we came across a requirement where we were required to fetch a file containing important data from S3 in order to use it. Due to Security concerns we were not keen on storing access keys on the EC2 instance. Which basically meant that we could not configure S3 on that very system as configuring S3 would create a...

by Hitesh Bhatia
Tag: s3
29-Dec-2013

AWS

How to delete all contents/objects of Amazon S3 bucket

If you have an S3 bucket with a huge number of files, and you want to delete the bucket, you need to empty the bucket first. If the bucket has a handful of files, then it is easy enough from the AWS interface, but if the bucket has a large number of files, then AWS interface is not an option; and you must use s3cmd or may be some other...

by Deepak Mittal
Tag: s3
12-Nov-2011