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I am investigating renaming bundles in AWS S3. I would prefer to use the SDK, but it appears that the SDK only supports Copy and Delete. This because the object keys are used for partitoning the drive.

However, the AWS CLI does provide a mv functionality, according to its docs.

Is this just a wrapper to the copy-and-delete operations (likely), or something else?

Thanks!

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It can't be anything else, since S3's REST interface does not support a "move" or "rename" operation, only the "put/copy" operation, which allows objects to be copied inside S3 from one key to another (including across buckets, even when the buckets are in two different regions, as long as a single set of credentials has sufficient privilege) without the need to first download and then upload the object.

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  • That's how I read it too. Vainly hoping there was maybe a move to more filesystem-like semantics that hadn't made it to the API yet. Although given that the CLI probably uses the API.... right. – LizH Jan 26 '15 at 10:26