access cloudflare r2 using aws cli

05 November, 2024

cloudflare
s3
  1. Create R2 tokens from the r2 Overview page. “Manage r2 API Tokens” -> “Create API Token”
  2. Copy the access key id and secret access key values
  3. Copy the endpoint url. It’s of the form <cloudflare_account_id>.r2.cloudflarestorage.com. Cloudflare account id is present in the url bar too when you are accessing the cloudflare dashboard and is also displayed in overview page of r2
  4. ~/.aws/config: 
    [profile cloudflare]
endpoint_url = https://<cloudlare_account_id>.r2.cloudflarestorage.com
  5. ~/.aws/credentials 
    [cloudflare]
aws_access_key_id = <> 
aws_secret_access_key = <>
  6. test with: 
    aws s3 ls