Tag S3 Objects with AWS CLI
Borislav Hadzhiev
Last updated: Sep 16, 2021
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Tagging S3 Objects with AWS CLI #
To tag an S3 object with the AWS CLI, use the put-object-tagging command.
shell
aws s3api put-object-tagging --bucket your_bucket --key dog.png --tagging "{\"TagSet\": [{\"Key\": \"department\", \"Value\": \"accounting\"}]}"
The command creates a tag with a key of department and a value of
accounting.
If the S3 object is nested in a "directory", pass the --key parameter as the
whole path that leads to the object, i.e. /static/images/dog.png.
Note that the
put-object-tagging command deletes any tags the S3 object previously had, before creating the new tags.To verify the S3 object got tagged successfully, run the get-object-tagging
command:
shell
aws s3api get-object-tagging --bucket your_bucket --key dog.png
To create multiple tags on an S3 object with the AWS CLI, pass multiple
key:value pair objects in the --tagging parameter:
shell
aws s3api put-object-tagging --bucket your_bucket --key dog.png --tagging "{\"TagSet\": [{\"Key\": \"department\", \"Value\": \"accounting\"}, {\"Key\": \"color\", \"Value\": \"green\"}]}"
AWS S3 limits the number of tags to a maximum of 10 tags per object.
To verify that both of the tags were created on the S3 object, run the
get-object-tagging command:
shell
aws s3api get-object-tagging --bucket your_bucket --key dog.png
Further Reading #
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