You can easily download files from your S3 bucket to your local filesystem using Amazon’s aws-cli (AWS Command Line Interface).

Install aws-cli

To install aws-cli:

Download the aws-cli directory:

curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscli.zip"

Extract the installer:

unzip awscli.zip

Install aws-cli as root:

sudo aws/install

Download files from the Amazon S3 bucket

Configure the AWS access key ID and secret access key for aws-cli:

aws configure

Download the files:

To download a single file:

aws s3 cp s3://BUCKET_NAME/BUCKET_PATH LOCAL_DIRECTORY

To download a directory:

aws s3 cp s3://BUCKET_NAME/BUCKET_PATH LOCAL_DIRECTORY --recursive