Open nkrumm opened 9 years ago
The other advantage to aws-cli is that we can add multiple profiles to the config. https://github.com/NDAR/ndar_toolkit/blob/master/ndar_update_keys.py creates a specific aws-cli profile for NDAR using creds from the command-line download manager.
You might also want to have a look at this. https://github.com/NDAR/NITRC-Pipeline-for-NDAR/tree/master/ndar_unpack
Imports boto and uses it for direct s3 access, which avoids another component and sub-process call. On the other hand aws-cli and s3cmd add a bunch of extra niceties like error handling. I don't know how the performance is with just using boto directly vs. one of these alternate tools.
The official aws command line tools are much faster and more reliable than s3cmd.
Since this still requires an external subprocess call-out, the best way to do this will be to wrap the commands in a s3_cp() command, part of the
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