Getting files in to AWS cloud

rubberduck · 6 Apr 2021 at 12:21

Hi.

What is the easiest and low/no cost solution for monitoring a windows based directory and doing periodic (hourly) upload of new files to the cloud? We are talking relatively small files - (a few MB), probably txt files.

Thanks

Flippy · 6 Apr 2021 at 17:49

If you want to upload the files to S3, then just install the aws cli or one of the alternatives and use windows task scheduler to run a batch script to upload the files. Use a command to get the files and then aws s3 cp to copy the file and then another command to delete it. Or aws s3 sync to sync the local files with s3.

You will need to specify where you want to upload the files to.

rubberduck · 6 Apr 2021 at 19:51

Flippy said:
If you want to upload the files to S3, then just install the aws cli or one of the alternatives and use windows task scheduler to run a batch script to upload the files. Use a command to get the files and then aws s3 cp to copy the file and then another command to delete it. Or aws s3 sync to sync the local files with s3.

You will need to specify where you want to upload the files to.

Many thanks, I did find AWS CLI after I posted. What you suggest of using a simple script being run by task scheduler sounds perfect. Thanks again!

rubberduck · 7 Apr 2021 at 09:19

Just out of interest are there any solutions for active folder monitoring that detect for new files being created and then automatically run the AWS CLI batch file?