AWS

The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is a unified tool to manage your AWS services.

Installation

• Type this in Terminal:

  pip install awscli
  

Configuration using CLI

• Type this in Terminal:

  aws configure
  

• It will prompt you for 4 pieces of information:

  1. AWS Access Key ID
  2. AWS Secret Access Key
  3. Default region name
  4. Default output format

• While output format has 3 options:

  • json
  • table
  • text

• If you have multiple AWS accounts, you can configure additional profile like this:

  aws configure --profile user2
  

Configuration and Credential Files

• Instead of using the CLI, you can modify the credentials and config files manually.

• The files generated by the CLI for the profile look like this:

• ~/.aws/credentials

  [default]
  aws_access_key_id=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
  aws_secret_access_key=wJalrXUtnFEMIaK7MDENGabPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
  

• ~/.aws/config

  [default]
  region=us-west-2
  output=json
  

Reference

Configuring the AWS Command Line Interface - AWS Command Line Interface