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All those who are using AWS might have a requirement to downloadsyncupload etc with your S3 bucket.
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There are several ways to achieve that which includes some third party tool and even there are some ways via Visual Studio.
Let us check them one by one, we will take the example of downloading entire S3 bucket using below tools:
AWS CLI
The AWS Command Line Interface is a unified tool that provides a consistent interface for interacting with all parts of AWS.
Install AWS CLI using command sudo pip install awscli and then follow below command to download entire S3 bucket:
Using s3cmd and S3Express
s3cmd is a third party tool which is a Command Line S3 Client and Backup for Linux and Mac and S3Express is Command Line S3 Client and S3 Backup for Windows.
You can download it from above link.
Once downloaded you can configure it as below:
You can even create and remove buckets using above tools. Have a look here for more details.
Using Visual Studio
You can download entire S3 bucket using Visual Studio. For that, you would be required to download AWS toolkit for visual studio which can be downloaded from here.
Once it is installed, go to Visual Studio â AWS Explorer â S3 â Your bucket â Double click
In the window, you will be able to select all files. Right click and download files.
Using Cyberduck
One more awesome tools for this is Cyberduck.
Cyberduck is a Libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Microsoft Azure & OneDrive and OpenStack Swift browser for Mac and Windows.
It just requires your AWS credentials and you can use the simple interface to download/upload/sync any of your buckets/folders/files.
Using Rclone
Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from
Visual Studio Aws Sdk
You can sync your S3 bucket by giving below commands:
Using S3Browser
S3 Browser is also one tool which can be used for above purpose. It is windows only tool.
S3 Browser is a freeware Windows client for Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront. Amazon S3 provides a simple web-services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN). It can be used to deliver your files using a global network of edge locations.
Using CloudBerry
I recently checked this one and it is nice too. It has a free version for S3.
As per the website:
CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3 provides a user interface to Amazon S3 accounts allowing to access, move and manage files across your local storage and S3 buckets. Amazon S3 file manager by CloudBerry is available in two versions â Freeware and PRO.
Freeware version. Free S3 browser comes with full support for such AWS features and services as Server Side Encryption, Lifecycle rules, Amazon CloudFront, Bucket Policies and more.
If you know any other awesome tools then do share it here.
Happy learning.
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Hello my undead friends!
Today weâre going to get our development environment setup to use AWS for programming. Weâre going to set it up for use with Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition.
AWS can be installed to work with older versions of Visual Studio, all the way back to 2008. If youâre still using Visual Studio 2005 or earlier, march into your bossâs office and tell him/her that heâs/sheâs cheap and needs to buy you a tool built in the last decade.
It can also be used with newer versions of Visual Studio. The procedure I cover here will work for Visual Studio 2015, but Visual Studio 2017 (and possibly newer ones) will use a different method, and weâll cover those in a separate post.
Step 1: Making Sure Visual Studio Is Up To Date
The first step is to make sure you know what version of Visual Studio youâre running, and making sure youâre up to date.
Open Visual Studio 2013
Choose Help > About Microsoft Visual Studio
You should see the following:
Awesome, weâre using Update 5, which at the time of this posting is the current version.
Next, letâs make sure Visual Studio doesnât need any updates. It sure would be convenient if Microsoft would include a âCheck for Updatesâ button here, but they donât.
So close that screen, and then go to âTools > Extensions and Updates â¦â, then click the Updates tab on the left, and check what is needed for Product Updates.
Great, Visual Studio still wants me to install a Windows Phone 8.1 Emulator (Iâll pass), but thereâs nothing critical for Visual Studio itself. So weâre good. Close Visual Studio.
Step 2: Download the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio 2013
Ok, so letâs go get the AWS Toolkit from Amazon.
Navigate your favorite browser to: https://aws.amazon.com/visualstudio/
Youâll see the following on the right hand side:
Click on AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio 2013-2015
This should take about 30 seconds to download (thanks Comcast). Itâs in .MSI format, so click on it to run it. Make sure Visual Studio is closed.
Youâll see the following:
Yay, a Wizard. Click Next.
Youâll get the End-User License Agreement (EULA) for three products: AWS SDK for .NET, AWS Toolkit, and AWS Tools for Windows Powershell. Cool, three products for the pain of installing one. Print them if you want and click to accept the terms and click Next.
Here you will see the products being installed. They are as follows:
Aws Visual Studio Toolkit
The Toolkit includes Visual Studio 2013 support as well as Standalone Deployment support.
Hmm, the Visual Studio 2013 part indicates this is for Professional Edition and above. Letâs try it anyway with the Community edition.
Go ahead and click Next.
TFVC is not supported for now. When you click the 'Open in Visual Studio' link from the VSTS Web Portal, it will call 'Microsoft Visual Studio Web Protocol Handler Selector' which is only supported on Windows OS. So it won't work on Mac OS X.
Great, a screen with not much purpose, go ahead and click âInstallâ.
This took about 5 minutes. I was installing it on my old ASUS ROG laptop I bought about 8 years ago. I wanted to be able to document a clean install experience. Itâs a great little computer that I still use to game when Iâm on the road. I was going to get a newer computer, but then I discovered Gaming in the Cloud, which we will cover in a future post. In any case, hopefully your install time is less.
And youâre done! Hopefully the whole process for you tool 10 minutes or less.
Step 3: Set Up An Appropriate User And Get Credentials
Ok, so best practices indicate we should use an account with appropriate permissions for our programming task. We will use this for a lot of tasks, but it doesnât make sense to use an admin access account. So letâs create an account in AWS for a new zombie programmer user named âMichaelâ.
If you need help adding a new user, take a look at Securing Your Brand New AWS Account.
Letâs go ahead and assign him âProgrammatic accessâ
Letâs create a new group for him called âProgrammer1â and assign him access based on the Job Function filter. Weâll choose PowerUserAccess, which provides him access to a whole bunch of stuff, but not to User or Group management.
Once the user is created, pause for a moment on the Step 4: Success screen
Letâs go ahead and make sure we download the .csv file that contains his information.
So Michael wonât be able to login to the AWS console, but he will have access to AWS using the programming SDK. Iâm not sure how I feel about that, since Michaelâs talents were musical and he wasnât well known as a programmer. Still, if he can learn to program, anyone can, so weâll go with it.
Step 4: Create An AWS Profile
Step 2: Containerizing the Asp.Net Core MVC application Adding docker support for the MVC application is very simple. Visual studio 2017 mac docker. Just right click on the project and select Add -> Add Docker Support.
Ok, with our power user Michael created, letâs go ahead and launch Visual Studio 2013.
Ok, so for me, Visual Studio launched and opened with a window prompting me to add my AWS credentials to Visual Studio. Your experience may vary based on whether you have set up your Visual Studio environment to do something specific on launch.
For the Profile Name, Iâm going to keep it associated with Michaelâs account, so Iâll call mine âMichaelâ.
Next I want to import the account information, so Iâll click on the âImport from .csv fileâ¦â button.
Oh crap, what the heck did I do?
I took a look at the .csv file, and nothing unusual there. Iâm guessing that something about the setup for importing the credentials .csv has changed recently and not been updated. Iâll investigate and get back to this post with an update if I learn something.
For now, Iâll enter the information needed manually. The file has a field for Access key ID and Secret access key, so go ahead and copy/paste them. Iâll leave Account Number blank, since itâs not required.
Once those are copy/pasted, the âSave and Closeâ button becomes golden and will be enabled. Click it.
I now have a nice new side panel on the left side of my Visual Studio screen.
It shows me a convenient list of the AWS services. It has my profile name provided, and I can change regions to different ones to see any region specific services. I changed to my US East (Virginia) region that I had previously set up SNS topics, and sure enough, they show up. I can expand the Amazon SNS tree and right click on HumansNearby and select âView Topicâ to confirm.
Neat, and a handy way to configure and change services within Visual Studio. Zombie likes!
Step 5: Test With Code!
So letâs make sure Visual Studio can communicate with our AWS services. Weâll create a tiny console application to list out the SNS topics I have for US East.
In Visual Studio, select File > New Project
Whoa, we got some AWS specific choices. Letâs choose AWS Console Project. Iâll call mine SNSListTopics. Click OK.
Neat, itâs asking which credential profile I want to use. Iâll go with Michael, and click OK.
The project is created. Letâs look at what AWS did for us.
app.config
So it looks like it is pulling in the credential information I included when I set up the Michael profile. Weâll look at that further in another post.
It also created a starter Program.cs file. I take a look at it, and â¦
Uh oh, squiggles. Something is wrong. Just to verify, I try to build:
Yep, thereâs a problem.
I look at the References section under my Solution Explorer, and it looks like it canât find the AWSSDK assemblies.
Yep, I am betting that it just doesnât know where they are.
As youâll recall, we installed the Amazon SDK in âC:Program FilesAWS SDK for .NETâ. Navigating there, it looks like all the assemblies are in the bin/Net45 assembly. Iâll go ahead and replace all four of the assemblies with ones found in that directory.
To do this, I right-click on References in the Solution Explorer, choose âAdd Referenceâ, and then choose Browse on the left. I click the Browse button towards the lower right, and then navigate to the âC:Program FilesAWS SDK for .NETbinNet45â directory.
I choose all four of the missing references:
Yay, the squiggles are gone. I do a build. Eureka! No errors.
I try to run itâ¦and bomb!
Really? Câmon AWS, throw me a bone here!
I do a little Google work, and switch my assemblies to set âCopy Localâ to True.
To do this, select each of the AWS assemblies under References, then for the properties of that assembly, choose the Copy Local dropdown and change it to âTrueâ.
With that, I click âStartâ again to run the application.
Microsoft visual studio 2013 for mac. Visual Studio for Mac enables the creation of.NET Core solutions, providing the back-end services to your client solutions. Code, debug, and test these cloud services simultaneously with your client solutions for increased productivity.
Finally!
So with that, we finally have a programmatic connection to AWS!
Summary
AWS sure didnât make the final stages easy, but I was highly impressed with how easy it was to add a profile to Visual Studio.
In future posts, weâll write our own version of the Hello World program for our SNS services we have already created.
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