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- The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) 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. The AWS CLI v2 offers several new features including improved installers, new configuration options such as AWS Single.
- Recommended – Uninstall AWS CLI version 1 and use only AWS CLI version 2. For uninstall instructions, determine the method you used to install AWS CLI version 1 and follow the appropriate uninstall instructions for your operating system in Installing, updating, and uninstalling the AWS CLI version 1.
Download and run the MSI Installer.
Python, pip and AWS CLI
To install Python 3 and pip
If you don’t have Python 3 and pip install do the following.
Download and install the Python 3 installer from Python.org
Install aws-cli via pip
Using the Windows Command Prompt verify that both python and pip are installed.
Install the aws-cli via pip
Adding the AWS CLI Executable to your Command Line Path
After installing with pip
, add the aws
program to your OS’s PATH
environment variable.
Python 3 and pip –
C:Program FilesPython37Scripts
Python 3 and pip –user option –
%USERPROFILE%AppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython37Scripts
To modify your PATH variable (Windows)
Press the Windows key and type
environment variables
.Choose Edit environment variables for your account.
Choose PATH and then choose Edit.
Add paths to the Variable value field, separated by semicolons. For example:
C:existingpath
;
C:newpath
Choose OK twice to apply the new settings.
Close any running command prompts and re-open.
Brew Method
Brew is a package manager that helps install a bunch of packages that apple didn’t include. It can save you a-lot of time.
Install brew (skip if already installed)
Paste this into the terminal prompt. The script explains what it will do then pauses before it does.
Install aws-cli
Pip Method
Check if pip and python is installed.
If python is not installed download and install Python 3.6 from Python.org
If pip is not installed run the following provided by the Python Packaging Authority.
Install aws-cli via pip
Adding the AWS CLI Executable to your Command Line Path
After installing with pip
, you may need to add the aws
program to your OS’s PATH
environment variable. The location of the program depends on where Python is installed.
If you don’t know where it was installed run the following command. The first output path may be to a symlink, so we need to run -al to where it points.
pip
installs programs in the same folder that contains the Python program. Add this folder to your PATH
variable.
To modify your PATH variable (Linux, macOS, or Unix)
Find your shell’s profile script in your user folder. If you are not sure which shell you have, run echo $SHELL
.
- Bash –
.bash_profile
,.profile
, or.bash_login
- Zsh –
.zshrc
- Tcsh –
.tcshrc
,.cshrc
or.login
.
Add an export command to your profile script.
This command adds a path, ~/.local/bin
in this example, to the current PATH variable.
Load the profile into your current session.
Check if your AWS CLI install was successful.
Configure AWS-CLI with aws configure
After this command is run, it will ask for 4 pieces of information:
The most important pieces of information are AWS Access Key ID [****************DXAQ]:
and AWS Secret Access Key [****************0lUP]:
To get your access key information –
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- Navigate and sign into AWS Console
- Go to the “IAM” section
- Click on “Users”
- Find you username and click on it
- Click on the “Security credentials” and click create access key.
The two other pieces of information remaining are Default region name
and Default output format
. Set your region to where you would like your commands to run. I typically leave the output format as None, however text, json and table are available.
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The AWS command line interface (CLI) is a great tool to quickly and easily manage your AWS resources. To install it, you’ll need to download and install the Python package from https://www.python.org/downloads/.
Besides installing the Python scripting language on your Mac, it also installs Pip, which is a Python package manager. We can use pip to install the AWS CLI, by running the following command:
Before you can start to run AWS cli commands against the AWS cloud, you will need to configure it with a few basic settings, such as an AWS Access Key , a default region and desired output format.
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By default, any cli commands are run against the default region, which in this case is Tokyo. You may want to set it to a region that is closest to you. Sometimes though, certain AWS features or services are not available in all regions and you will need to switch region by using the --region
switch or set it using the aws configure
command.
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For examples of what you can do with the CLI, check out the AWS Command Line Interface documentation.