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AWS CLI S3 Cheat Sheet/Move or rename an object

Move an object within S3 or between S3 and local paths.

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Section: High-Level S3 Commands

Move or rename an object

bash
bash
aws s3 mv s3://my-bucket/tmp/file.txt s3://my-bucket/archive/file.txt
Explanation

Under the hood this is effectively copy plus delete.

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