Thursday, April 23, 2015

What is the AWS Command Line Interface? (47 of 285 technotes for 2015)



The AWS Command Line Interface is a unified tool to manage your AWS services. With just one tool to download and configure, you can control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts.


  • Download CLI Tools - unzip it and keep it at a location - say c:aws_cliec2-api-tools-1.7.3.2. This is your EC2_HOME.
  • Set Java_HOME & EC2_HOME environment variables
  • add  %JAVA_HOME%/bin; %EC2_HOME%/bin to the PATH variable
  • Set 

    AWS_ACCESS_KEY & 

    AWS_SECRET_KEY environment variable
  • execute the command in command promt- c:> ec2-describe-regions (see image below)
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All the commands are available at the EC2_HOMEbin directory

Or

You can simple use the MSI (for WIndows) - see below

and set the “Access Key” and the “Secret Key” using the command “aws configure”.

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