Preserving the directory structure while uploading files to S3 could be a handy thing especially if you want to copy these files later to an EBS volume. The solution is pretty simple as shown below.
Prerequisites
- AWS CLI
Solution
Step 1. Use the aws s3 sync command.
aws s3 sync <local_dir_path>/ s3://some-bucket-name
Conclusion
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