AWS Tools for PowerShell Introduces S3 PowerShell Drive
AWS Tools for PowerShell now features an S3 PowerShell Drive, enabling users to interact with Amazon S3 storage like a local file system using standard commands such as `Set-Location` and `Get-ChildItem`. This simplifies ad-hoc S3 exploration, content management, and basic file operations without the need for specific S3 cmdlets. The drive supports cross-region access and is available in `AWS.Tools.S3` version 5.0.288 or later, compatible with PowerShell environments on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
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- Interact with S3 as a file system using PowerShell Drive
The new S3 PowerShell Drive integrates Amazon S3 into PowerShell as a mountable drive, allowing users to navigate buckets and prefixes, read/write objects, and delete data using common file system commands like `Get-ChildItem` and `Set-Content`. It supports cross-region bucket access from a single drive, optional scoping to a specific bucket or prefix, and runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS with PowerShell 5.1 or 7+. This capability is provided as part of the `AWS.Tools.S3` module, requiring version 5.0.288 or later.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/introducing-the-s3-powershell-drive-in-aws-tools-for-powershell/
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