- An account with Amazon AWS
- An access key ID
- A secret access key.
Create a user and get a secret access key for FileZilla Pro CLI
- Go to the IAM dashboard at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam
- Select Users from the menu on the left.
- Click on Add User.
- Enter a user name.
- Tick the Programmatic access checkbox.
- Click on Next: Permissions.
- Click on Attach existing policies directly.
- Enter S3 in the policy search field and press ENTER on your keyboard.
- Tick the AmazonS3FullAccess policy.
- Click on Next: Tags.
- Click on Next: Review
- Check that you’ve assigned the AmazonS3FullAccess policy.
- Click on Create User.
- Without closing this browser window – you’ll need the access key information – open FileZilla Pro CLI.
Connecting to S3
Use the s3 protocol and connect to the s3.amazonaws.com
host:
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From the prompt enter the connect command:
fzcli> connect s3://:@s3.amazonaws.com ˓→<path>
Optionally you can use the parameters of the connect command:
fzcli> connect --protocol s3 --user --pass --path s3.amazonaws.com
Note that the path is optional but if present it has to start with a slash.