The Big Data in Real World team sees a problem:
There is no separate command in AWS CLI to find the number of objects in an S3 bucket but there is a workaround.
Read on for the solution to this. The way that S3 and Azure Blob Storage (without hierarchical namespaces) store files as tags and treat folders as cosmetic is neat from a technical standpoint, though it goes counter to how we’d expect a file system to behave.