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title: "gsutil With Wasabi"
slug: "how-do-i-use-gsutil-with-wasabi"
updated: 2026-05-29T23:06:27Z
published: 2026-05-29T23:06:27Z
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# gsutil With Wasabi

[>gsutil](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil) is Google Cloud Storage's command line tool to access the cloud resources. gsutil has an in-built configuration to access Amazon S3 buckets. This configuration can be used to point the storage host to Wasabi servers as a means of allow you to use gsutil with Wasabi.

Steps:

1. [Install](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil_install) gsutil. Follow all the instructions provided on the documentation page
2. Edit the *~/.boto* file to provide Wasabi Access keys and Wasabi endpoint
3. Under the [Credentials] section of the file make the below changes

Uncomment *'aws_access_key_id'* , *'aws_secret_access_key',* *'s3_host'* parameters and provide the below values:

```plaintext

# To add HMAC aws credentials for "s3://" URIs, edit and uncomment the
# following two lines:
aws_access_key_id = 
aws_secret_access_key = 
# The ability to specify an alternate storage host and port
# is primarily for cloud storage service developers.
# Setting a non-default gs_host only works if prefer_api=xml.
s3_host = s3.wasabisys.com
#s3_port =
```

1. Sample commands:

List files in bucket:

*gsutil ls s3://*

Write file from local directory to bucket:

*gsutil cp / s3://*

Read file from bucket to local directory:

*gsutil cp s3://// /*

Note that this example discusses the use of Wasabi's us-east-1 storage region. To use other Wasabi storage regions, please use the appropriate Wasabi service URL as described in this [article](https://docs.wasabi.com/docs/what-are-the-service-urls-for-wasabis-different-storage-regions).