AWS SDK CPP
Written in 2018. Tools, APIs and prices may have changed since.
Lab note What I wrote down while learning this by building with it. Short by design; the code is in pfeilbr/aws-sdk-cpp-playground.
learn aws-sdk-app C++ SDK
see README.md file(s) in subdirectories of src
install aws-sdk-cpp
git clone https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-cpp.git
cd aws-sdk-cpp
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
make install
build and run example
cd src/s3-example
mkdir -p build && cd build
cmake .. && make
# run
./s3-example
output

Key Install File Locations
/usr/local/lib/cmake/AWSSDK- cmake modules/usr/local/include- headers installed/usr/local/lib- libraries installed (e.g. libaws-cpp-sdk-core.dylib)