How to scp to Amazon s3?

As of 2015, SCP/SSH is not supported (and probably never will be for the reasons mentioned in the other answers).

Official AWS tools for copying files to/from S3

1. command line tool (pip3 install awscli) - note credentials need to be specified, I prefer via environment variables rather than a file: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY.

   aws s3 cp /tmp/foo/ s3://bucket/ --recursive --exclude "*" --include "*.jpg"

   • http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/index.html

   and an rsync-like command:

   aws s3 sync . s3://mybucket

   • http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/sync.html

2. Web interface:

   • https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/home?region=us-east-1

Non-AWS methods

Any other solutions depend on third-party executables (e.g. botosync, jungledisk...) which can be great as long as they are supported. But third party tools come and go as years go by and your scripts will have a shorter shelf life.

• https://github.com/ncw/rclone

EDIT: Actually, AWS CLI is based on botocore:

https://github.com/boto/botocore

So botosync deserves a bit more respect as an elder statesman than I perhaps gave it.

Here's just the thing for this, boto-rsync. From any Linux box, install boto-rsync and then use this to transfer /local/path/ to your_bucket/remote/path/:

boto-rsync -a your_access_key -s your_secret_key /local/path/ s3://your_bucket/remote/path/

The paths can also be files.

For a S3-compatible provider other than AWS, use --endpoint:

boto-rsync -a your_access_key -s your_secret_key --endpoint some.provider.com /local/path/ s3://your_bucket/remote/path/

You can't SCP.

The quickest way, if you don't mind spending money, is probably just to send it to them on a disk and they'll put it up there for you. See their Import/Export service.