Download a file from the internet to ec2

Did scp not work? It does very well for me. I hava a file generalized from EC2, so it is now in EC2 and wanna transfer it to my computer. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Use scp: scp -i ec2key. Improve this answer. Won't this send a file TO amazon? What if I want to get the file from there? Could you help me with this then. When I try it with my ec2 server it doesn't work!! Wild guess - are you running scp from your ec2 server perhaps? If yes, you need to run it from your local machine i.

Show 4 more comments. What OS are you in? Kirtikumar A. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Install s3cmd Use s3cmd to upload the file to S3. Improve this answer. Daniel Zohar Daniel Zohar 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges. I was contemplating something like this, but I wanted to ask around to see if there was an easier way.

Thanks for pointing out all the steps too. Using wget doesn't download the file but only the page with this link: cms. So you can create a bucket and configure in your code to fetch data from url and write to this bucket in s3 for eg in python : from boto. Sreejithc Sreejithc 1, 3 3 gold badges 16 16 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges.

From the documentation, k. I want the content at that url to be pushed directly to s3 without needing to be downloaded locally. MNassar MNassar 31 3 3 bronze badges. Tanmay Gautam Tanmay Gautam 31 1 1 bronze badge.

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To upload a file from your windows computer to your amazon ec2 instance you have to type the following command in your command line interface. So this command will upload a file index. To download a file from your amazon ec2 instance to your windows computer you have to type the following command in your command line interface.

So this command will download a file index. So far I have discussed how to upload or download files to or from amazon ec2 instance using the command line interface, which may seems to be little bit complex. After the installation is completed, open FileZilla and.