AWS EMR EC2 S3 tips - mikec964/chelmbigstock GitHub Wiki

Link to AWS tutorial
Link to materials for the hands-on session we had

To acceess your S3 storage easily from EC2, install s3cmd on your EC2.

1. From a bash shell on an EC2 VM, run this command:
   $ curl -L -O http://sourceforge.net/projects/s3tools/files/s3cmd/1.5.0-rc1/s3cmd-1.5.0-rc1.tar.gz
   This creates s3cmd-1.5.0-rc1.tar.gz in the current directory.
2. To extract the tar.gz, run
   $ tar -zxvf s3cmd-1.5.0-rc1.tar.gz
   This creates a new directory s3cmd-1.5.0-rc1.
3. Go to the directory
   $ cd s3cmd-1.5.0-rc1
4. Install s3cmd
   $ sudo python setup.py install
5. Configure s3cmd
   $ s3cmd --configure
   s3cmd asks some questions:
6. Access Key: enter your AWSAccessKeyId
7. Secret Key: enter your AWSSecretKey
8. Encryption password: whatever you like
9. You can skip the rest of questions by hitting the enter key
10. All set!