Copy file from one bucket to another within the same region where bucketname1 is the source bucket and bucketname2 is the target bucket.
aws s3 cp s3://bucketname1/filename s3://bucketname2/filename
Copy file from one bucket to another in a different region as below where bucketname1 is the source bucket and bucketname2 is the target bucket.
aws s3 cp s3://bucketname1/filename s3://bucketname2/filename --source-region us-east-1 --region eu-west-1
Copy all the contents of bucketname1 to bucketname2
aws 3 sync s3://bucketname1 s3://bucketname2
To exclude copying one of the folders while copying an entire bucket, use the below command where ‘prefix‘ is the folder name that you would like to exclude.
aws 3 sync s3://bucketname1 s3://bucketname2 --exclude 'prefix/*'
To exclude multiple folders while copying contents from one s3 bucket to another, use below command where ‘prefix1’, ‘prefix2’, ‘prefix3’ are the folders that should be excluded
aws 3 sync s3://bucketname1 s3://bucketname2 --exclude 'prefix1/*' --exclude 'prefix2/*' --exclude 'prefix3/*'
