Cloudformation user data download file from s3

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Hope that helps :. Improve this answer. MLu MLu See other answer, it's perfectly doable. Also one can define a Lambda function inside the template which can be executed and do whatever you want.

Using custom resources anyhow. Also see aws. I use custom lambda resource too for anything outside of CF capabilities. No dependency on any 3rd party this way. Create a separate CloudFormation stack with macro. This creates the Transform Macro "S3Objects" that will then be available to any other stack in the region. The file example.

Michael Hampton k 39 39 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Alan Ivey Alan Ivey 1, 11 11 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. Weird that this is not a native type. As you may have noticed, we have used sync or cp in the above commands. Just for your knowledge, the difference between the sync and cp is that the sync option syncs your bucket with the local folder whereas the cp command copies the objects you specified to the local folder.

For our purpose to download files from s3 we can use either one of sync or cp. I believe this post helped you solve your problem. I hope you got what you were looking for and you learned something valuable.

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Improve this answer. DorianFabre - true, it's only installed by default on the AWS Linux AMI, but for others you can just do a pip install awscli or pip3 as part of the user data.

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