(PowerShell) Amazon S3 Download String from Bucket in Region

Demonstrates how to download a text file (i.e. object) from an S3 bucket NOT in the us-east-1 region.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-9.5.0-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

# This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$http = New-Object Chilkat.Http

# Insert your access key here:
$http.AwsAccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"

# Insert your secret key here:
$http.AwsSecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"

# This bucket is in the eu-central-1 region.
$http.AwsRegion = "eu-central-1"

$bucketName = "chilkateufrankfurt"

$objectName = "fruit.xml"

$charset = "utf-8"

$fileContents = $http.S3_DownloadString($bucketName,$objectName,$charset)

if ($http.LastMethodSuccess -ne $true) {
    # Failed
    $($http.LastErrorText)
}
else {
    # Success
    $($fileContents)
}