deploy-aws-s3-cloudfront
Advanced tools
Syncs a local directory to an AWS S3 bucket, optionally invalidating affected CloudFront paths.
Syncs a local directory to an AWS S3 bucket, optionally invalidating affected CloudFront paths.
npm install --save deploy-aws-s3-cloudfront
This packages uses the AWS SDK for Node.js and defers authentication to the SDK.
If you are relying on credentials stored in ~/.aws/credentials you can use AWS_PROFILE=<profile> deploy-aws-s3-cloudfront ... to use a custom-named profile.
deploy-aws-s3-cloudfront --bucket <bucket> [options]
deploy-aws-s3-cloudfront install-soft-delete --bucket <bucket> [options]
--bucket <name> (required)AWS S3 bucket name to deploy to.
Default: undefined
--debugEnable output of debugging log messages.
Default: false
--non-interactiveDo not prompt for confirmations.
Default: false
--output-format <format>Logging output format.
Accepted formats are: colorized, json or text.
Default: text
deploy-aws-s3-cloudfront--acl <pattern:value> [<pattern:value>...]Apply ACL to specific pattern(s). The first pattern to match the path is applied.
See the Using Patterns section for pattern usage.
See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/S3.html#upload-property for accepted values.
Default: []
--cache-control <pattern>:<value> [<pattern>:<value>...]Apply Cache Control to specific pattern(s). The first pattern to match the path is applied.
See the Using Patterns section for pattern usage.
Default: []
--deleteDelete objects in AWS S3 that do not exist locally. Objects are retained if both this option and --soft-delete are omitted.
Default: false
--destination <path>Path to remote directory to sync to.
Default: /
--distribution <ID>AWS CloudFront distribution ID to invalidate. No invalidation is performed if this option is omitted.
Default: undefined
--exclude <pattern> [<pattern>...]Pattern(s) to exclude from deployment.
See the Using Patterns section for pattern usage.
Default: []
--invalidation-path <path> [<path>...]Set the invalidation path(s) instead of automatically detecting objects to invalidate. Paths should be absolute (with a leading slash).
This option is typically used to reduce invalidation costs by using a wildcard pattern (e.g. --invalidation-path "/*").
Special characters should be URL-encoded where necessary.
Default: []
--reactUse recommended settings for React applications.
See the React Apps section for more information.
Default: false
--retain <pattern> [<pattern>...]Pattern(s) to skip from deletion. Used with the --delete option.
See the Using Patterns section for pattern usage.
Default: []
--soft-deleteTag objects in AWS S3 that do not exist locally. Objects are retained if both this option and --delete are omitted.
See the Soft-Deleting Objects section for more information.
Default: false
--soft-delete-tag-key <key>Soft-deleted objects are tagged with this key.
See the Soft-Deleting Objects section for more information.
Default: deleted
--soft-delete-tag-value <value>Soft-deleted objects are tagged with this value.
See the Soft-Deleting Objects section for more information.
Default: true
--source <path>Path to local directory to sync from.
Default: .
--tags <pattern>:<key>=<value>[,<key>=<value>...] [<pattern>:<key>=<value>[,<key>=<value>...]...]Apply tags to specific pattern(s). All patterns that match the path are applied.
See the Using Patterns section for pattern usage.
Default: []
deploy-aws-s3-cloudfront install-soft-delete--expiration <expiration>Expiration (in days) rule for generated soft-deletion lifecycle policy.
Default: 90
--id <ID>ID for generated soft-deletion lifecycle policy.
Default: Soft-Delete
--tag-key <key>Key used for generated soft-deletion lifecycle policy tag.
Default: deleted
--tag-value <value>Value used for generated soft-deletion lifecycle policy tag.
Default: true
run-script alias (optional)Add script aliases to your package.json file:
{
...
"scripts": {
...
"predeploy": "deploy-aws-s3-cloudfront install-soft-delete --bucket my-bucket",
"deploy": "deploy-aws-s3-cloudfront --bucket my-bucket"
}
}
Run yarn run deploy or npm run deploy to deploy. A soft-delete lifecycle rule will also be installed. Remove the predeploy script if you do not use the soft-deletion feature or prefer to install it manually.
If you need to pass user or environment-level options that you don't want committed into package.json you can provide these at call-time, e.g. yarn run deploy --distribution abc123 or npm run deploy -- --distribution abc123.
Several options support patterns which allows the option to apply only to matching objects.
Patterns should be relative (without a leading slash) to the source directory and are parsed using micromatch.
Objects can be soft-deleted using an S3 Object Lifecycle expiration rule.
This feature can be enabled using the --soft-delete option. When enabled, objects are not deleted from S3 but are instead tagged for later removal by a lifecycle rule. The lifecycle rule is created using the install-soft-delete command.
The installed rule will automatically delete objects that are both tagged for deletion and have expired. The expiration time is relative to the object creation date, in days.
In some cases, soft-deleted items may be deleted immediately after being tagged for deletion. This happens when the object was created earlier than the expiration period. The expiration period should therefore be set to a suitable duration according to your release schedule using the --expiration option (default is 90 days). It is not currently possible to expire objects based on the tag creation date, only the object creation date. This is a limitation of AWS S3.
Created Tagged Deleted
|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------> Days
0 30 60 90
In this example, the expiration is set to 90 days and the object was tagged for soft-deletion 60 days after creation. It will be deleted 30 days later.
Tagged+
Created Deleted
|-----------|-----------|-----------|-------|---> Days
0 30 60 90 110
In this example, the expiration is set to 90 days and the object was tagged for soft-deletion 110 days after creation. It will be deleted immediately.
Use the --react option when deploying apps created using create-react-app. This is shortcut for deploy-aws-s3-cloudfront --source ./build/ --cache-control index.html:no-cache.
If you opt to delete objects on deployment, it is recommended to use the --soft-delete option to minimise impact to users online during a deployment. Such users will have loaded the previous version of index.html which will likely reference assets which have since been deleted by a deployment. They will not receive the latest index.html until they refresh. Using the --soft-delete option will retain stale objects in S3 for a period of time to allow online users to continue browsing until they refresh to get the latest version.
The example below should allow you to use the core functionality of this tool. Advanced usage (such as soft-deletion) may require further permissions (TODO).
Please replace <BUCKET_NAME>, <ACCOUNT_ID>, <DISTRIBUTION_ID> values with those of your own.
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "ListBuckets",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
"Resource": "*"
},
{
"Sid": "ListBucket",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": "s3:ListBucket",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::<BUCKET_NAME>"
},
{
"Sid": "OperateWithObjects",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"s3:PutObject",
"s3:PutObjectAcl",
"s3:PutObjectVersionAcl",
"s3:DeleteObject",
"s3:DeleteObjectVersion"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::<BUCKET_NAME>/*"
},
{
"Sid": "CloudFrontInvalidation",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": "cloudfront:CreateInvalidation",
"Resource": "arn:aws:cloudfront::<ACCOUNT_ID>:distribution/<DISTRIBUTION_ID>"
}
]
}
AWS S3 Sync (bundled with AWS CLI)
The aws s3 sync command uses the modification time to identify modified assets. This doesn't work well when building a project often involves regenerating files with fresh timestamps but identical content.
This package will instead perform a checksum comparison to minimise the deployment payload. The MD5 checksum will be computed against local files then compared against the ETag of the corresponding remote objects.
For React apps, the react-deploy-s3 provides similar behaviour to this package. However, react-deploy-s3 expects your AWS credentials to be passed in as command arguments and requires additional configuration to get set up. In contrast, this package defers authentication to the AWS SDK and therefore supports multiple authentication strategies (e.g. IAM roles, environment variables and profiles).
Additionally, react-deploy-s3 will purge everything from your S3 bucket before re-uploading the entire build directory. Here, however, deployments are incremental resulting in a smaller payload and minimal interruption. Likewise, this package will perform a more efficient CloudFront purge by executing an invalidation on the affected paths only, as opposed to a site-wide refresh as performed by react-deploy-s3.
FAQs
Syncs a local directory to an AWS S3 bucket, optionally invalidating affected CloudFront paths.
The npm package deploy-aws-s3-cloudfront receives a total of 3,585 weekly downloads. As such, deploy-aws-s3-cloudfront popularity was classified as popular.
We found that deploy-aws-s3-cloudfront demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Did you know?
Socket for GitHub automatically highlights issues in each pull request and monitors the health of all your open source dependencies. Discover the contents of your packages and block harmful activity before you install or update your dependencies.
Security News
ECMAScript 2025 introduces Iterator Helpers, Set methods, JSON modules, and more in its latest spec update approved by Ecma in June 2025.
Security News
A new Node.js homepage button linking to paid support for EOL versions has sparked a heated discussion among contributors and the wider community.
Research
North Korean threat actors linked to the Contagious Interview campaign return with 35 new malicious npm packages using a stealthy multi-stage malware loader.