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aws CLI

You must generate an Access Key before getting started. All examples will utilize access_key_id and access_key_secret variables which represent the Access Key ID and Secret Access Key values you generated.


With the aws CLI installed, you may run aws configure to configure a new profile. You will be prompted with a series of questions for the new profile's details.

Terminal window
aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: <access_key_id>
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: <access_key_secret>
Default region name [None]: auto
Default output format [None]: json

You may then use the aws CLI for any of your normal workflows.

Terminal window
aws s3api list-buckets --endpoint-url https://<accountid>.r2.cloudflarestorage.com
# {
# "Buckets": [
# {
# "Name": "sdk-example",
# "CreationDate": "2022-05-18T17:19:59.645000+00:00"
# }
# ],
# "Owner": {
# "DisplayName": "134a5a2c0ba47b38eada4b9c8ead10b6",
# "ID": "134a5a2c0ba47b38eada4b9c8ead10b6"
# }
# }
aws s3api list-objects-v2 --endpoint-url https://<accountid>.r2.cloudflarestorage.com --bucket sdk-example
# {
# "Contents": [
# {
# "Key": "ferriswasm.png",
# "LastModified": "2022-05-18T17:20:21.670000+00:00",
# "ETag": "\"eb2b891dc67b81755d2b726d9110af16\"",
# "Size": 87671,
# "StorageClass": "STANDARD"
# }
# ]
# }

Generate presigned URLs

You can also generate presigned links which allow you to share public access to a file temporarily.

Terminal window
# You can pass the --expires-in flag to determine how long the presigned link is valid.
$ aws s3 presign --endpoint-url https://<accountid>.r2.cloudflarestorage.com s3://sdk-example/ferriswasm.png --expires-in 3600
# https://<accountid>.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/sdk-example/ferriswasm.png?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=<credential>&X-Amz-Date=<timestamp>&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=<signature>
aws s3 presign --endpoint-url https://<accountid>.r2.cloudflarestorage.com s3://sdk-example/ferriswasm.png --expires-in 3600
# https://<accountid>.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/sdk-example/ferriswasm.png?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=<credential>&X-Amz-Date=<timestamp>&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=<signature>