How to Generate a Presigned S3 URL via AWS CLI

Question

Is there a way to create presigned URL for objects in S3 bucket using AWS CLI?

I know that could be done using SDK, but is it possible with CLI?

I found this on one of the AWS docs, but can't complete the command:

s3cmd signurl s3://BUCKET/OBJECT <expiry_epoch|+expiry_offset>

Any help?

Answer 1

So the command for pre-signed URL is:

aws s3 presign s3://bucket-address/  --expires-in 300

But the caveat is; we can have pre-signed URL's that works for individual file/object level and not on directory level.

Happy to be corrected if wrong.

Answer 2

Wildcards are now supported.

E.g. aws s3 presign s3://mybucket/*

Answer 3

Did you try aws s3 presign?

Generate a pre-signed URL for an Amazon S3 object. This allows anyone who receives the pre-signed URL to retrieve the S3 object with an HTTP GET request. For sigv4 requests the region needs to be configured explicitly.

This will generate a URL that will expire in 3600 seconds (default)

aws s3 presign s3://mybucket/myobject

This will generate a URL that will expire in 300 seconds

aws s3 presign s3://mybucket/myobject  --expires-in 300

Output

https://mybucket.s3.amazonaws.com/myobject?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&Expires=1503602631&Signature=ibOGfAovnhIF13DALdAgsdtg2s%3D

Answer 4

@Michael and @Shabbir,

Yes, aws s3 presign does not accept globbing/wildcards/, --include, --exclude, or --recursive'. awslsdoes not accept-1; it behaves asls -lporls -lph`.

a loop works:

for file in $(aws s3 ls s3://mybucket --profile myprofile \
--endpoint-url <my-endpoint> | awk '{print $NF}'); do
    aws s3 presign --expires-in 300 "s3://mybucket/$file" |
    --profile my-profile --endpoint-url <my-endpoint>
done