Installing AWS CLI and retrieving your files from S3

Installing AWS CLI

The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) is available in the following versions:

• Version 2.x: The current, generally available release of the AWS CLI that is intended for use in production environments.  
• Version 1.x (32-bit support): The previous version of the AWS CLI is available for backward compatibility.
  
  Note: Healthjump recommends version 2 of the AWS CLI as Python 2.7 was deprecated by the Python Software Foundation on January 1, 2020. Going forward, customers using the AWS CLI version 1 should transition to using Python 3, with a minimum of Python 3.6. Python 2.7 support is deprecated for new versions of the AWS CLI version 1 starting 7/15/2021. Python 3.4 and 3.5 will be deprecated starting 2/1/2021.

Installing AWS CLI version 2

AWS CLI version 2 is the most recent major version of the AWS CLI and supports all of the latest features.  TAWS CLI version 2 is available to install only as a bundled installer. 

Prerequisites

Before you can install or update the AWS CLI version 2 on Windows, be sure you have the following:

Installation (Windows)

Download and run the AWS CLI MSI installer for Windows (64-bit):

Alternatively, you can run the msiexec command to run the MSI installer:

C:\> msiexec.exe /i https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2.msi

AWS CLI version 1 (32-bit Support)

1. Download the appropriate MSI installer:

   • AWS CLI combined setup file for Windows: https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cli/AWSCLISetup.exe (includes both the 32-bit and 64-bit MSI installers, and automatically installs the correct version)

2. Run the downloaded MSI installer.

3. Follow the on-screen instructions. By default, the AWS CLI version 1 installs to: 

   1. C:\Program Files\Amazon\AWSCLI (64-bit version) or

   2. C:\Program Files (x86)\Amazon\AWSCLI (32-bit version)

4. To confirm the installation, use the aws --version command at a command prompt (open the Start menu and search for cmd to start a command prompt).

   C:\> aws --version
   aws-cli/1.19.3 Python/3.7.4 Windows/10 botocore/1.13

Configuration

For general use, the aws configure command is the fastest way to set up your AWS CLI installation. When you enter this command, the AWS CLI prompts you for four pieces of information:

• Access key ID
• Secret access key <Provided by your 
• AWS Region <us-west-2>
• Output format <default>

The following example shows sample values. Replace them with your own values as described in the following sections.

$ aws configure

AWS Access Key ID [None]: AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
Default region name [None]: us-west-2
Default output format [None]: json

• To copy files from s3 run:
  

  aws s3 cp s3://<bucket>/<folder>/ c:\<local folder> --recursive

• To move files from s3 run:
  

  aws s3 mv s3://<bucket>/<folder>/ c:\<local folder> --recursive

Scheduling (Windows)

1. Open windows task scheduler

2. Click create basic task and give it a title

3. Hit next and set a desired schedule

4. Hit next and select Start a program

5. Enter the command aws and the parameters from above (s3 mv...)