Zip your Amazon S3 bucket or a folder, or download the zip

Use CloudZip to create a downloadable zip archive of files in your Amazon S3 bucket. You can choose to zip all or some of the files in your S3 bucket, and automatically create one or more zip files each up to 4GB. The service includes a separate csv listing of all your files that were zipped, and the urls to download your zips. The zip and csv listing are stored in your bucket so you maintain control over your content. Use the provided url or S3 Console to download the zip of your content. Multiple zip and csv listing files may be created depending on the number and size of files being zipped. To get started Sign In and click the service Begin Now link and you'll be taken to a form where you should enter the following required information in the fields:

• Source Bucket name - enter the S3 bucket name that is the source of the zip operation (e.g. mybucket). The source bucket name is combined with the source folder name to locate your files. Any files and folders contained within or below the source bucket and folder will be added to the zip file as needed. To locate your buckets, login to the AWS S3 Console and look at the top level for your buckets listed in the All Buckets table. Enter one of the bucket names into this field.

• Source Folder name - enter the optional S3 folder path and name that you would like as the source of the zip operation (e.g. myfiles/current). Leave this field blank to zip your whole bucket. The source bucket name is combined with the source folder name to locate your files. Any files and folders contained within or below this folder will be added to the zip file as needed.

• Zip file destination folder name - enter the path of the folder that you would like as the destination of the zip operation (e.g. /backups). Leave this field blank to put your zip in the root of your bucket. If specified, the folder must already exist.

• Zip sub-directories as separate zips - select this to optionally create a separate zip file for each Source Folder sub-directory that matches the Zip sub-directories expression

• Zip sub-directories expression - enter a regular expression that will create a separate zip file for any matching sub-directories of the Source Folder. Only used when Zip sub-directories as separate zips is selected. Use .* for all directories. Files not contained within the directories will be ignored. For example [a-s].* would create a zip file for each sub-directory whose names start with 'a' thru 's', refer to this Regex pattern syntax

• File exclusion expression - enter an optional regular expression that will exclude any matching files from the zip file. Recommend you exclude any pre-existing zip files, for example type .*zip For details refer to this Regex pattern syntax. When this is used in conjunction with Zip sub-directories as separate zips, any matching files will be excluded from within the zips of the selected directories.

• Publicly accessible - Select this checkbox to set your zip and csv file permission for the download URLs to grant read access to everyone. Unselected (default) does not set read access by everyone so only your AWS S3 user may download the files. Refer to the article Amazon S3 Bucket Public Access Considerations. Note that your bucket static website hosting would still need to be manually enabled by you to allow public sharing. This service only sets the permissions on the created zip and csv objects. If needed you can use the S3 Console to download your bucket's zip from the destination.

• AWS Access Key ID - enter your AWS Access Key. You need to enter the Secret Access key in the field below. If you don't know your keys, we recommend you create a new user for your AWS account, with S3 and Glacier access, using the AWS Identity and Access Management page. It is easy to create a user, see the CloudZip IAM User Setup page for more information.

• Secret Access Key - enter your AWS Secret Access Key. If you don't know your keys, we recommend you create a new user for your AWS account, with S3 and Glacier access, using the AWS Identity and Access Management page. It is easy to create a user, see the CloudZip IAM User Setup page for more information.

After you have entered the above information, click Verify to validate your entries. Next click Pay Now to authorize the transaction and begin the service.

After clicking Pay Now, you'll get an email receipt confirming that your service has started. The actual time to create your zip file and generate the file listing depends on the size of the zip file content and the number of items and folders in your source folder or bucket. When the service has completed you'll get a confirmation email that contains a hyperlink to your listing. You may then download a copy of your zip file and listing, share the links, etc.

Features and Benefits of CloudZip service to Zip and Download your S3 bucket files and folders

Create a zip file of your Amazon S3 bucket contents, optionally download the zip. This service includes an informative csv format listing of the files that were included in the zip files. When the service completes you can download your bucket zip archive files and listings right to your computer. The zip and csv listing are stored in your bucket and vault so you maintain control over your content.

Great for backups, copying your files from S3, and archiving S3 snapshots in Glacier cold-storage! If you are moving data to Amazon Glacier, this service is a great way to archive 1000s of files in your bucket into a few objects. Use this zip service to create large archives to download or store in your Glacier vault. For each object put into a vault Glacier charges a small fee, and by using zips it helps lower the cost moving to Glacier.

Depending on the number and size of files being zipped, multiple zip files may be created. The file listing includes destination object/file names, original size, last modified date, S3 url and source path. The csv listing itself is zipped and you may download it right to your computer.

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