AWS CLI
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AWS Command Line Tool (CLI)
AWS CLI is available in GitHub: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/releases.
Installation
Execute apt-get -y install awscli and configure it[1] use aws configure and check configuration using aws configure list.
AWS CLI configuration
First you will need to configure your AWS CLI access: aws configure or aws configure --profile your-new-profile-name.
You will be prompted to enter a username and password.
Configuration will be saved in directory $HOME/.aws/ in files credentials and config.
Execute aws configure list to view your actual configuration. If you execute for the first time will be something like:
# aws configure list
Name Value Type Location
---- ----- ---- --------
profile <not set> None None
access_key <not set> None None
secret_key <not set> None None
region <not set> None None
Basic AWS EC2 commands [2]
Before starting to use AWS CLI you will need to configure IAM policies for your user.
- Get a list of EC2 instances:
aws ec2 describe-instances
- Get a list of EC2 instances and filter Name, Id and Status:
aws ec2 describe-instances | egrep 'InstanceId|"Name":|"Value":|PublicIp'
- Create or run an instance
aws ec2 run-instances[3]
- Start an EC2 instance:
aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids i-08cf893bbcfd7dc46(Use your own instance-id)
- Stop an EC2 instance:
aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids i-08cf893bbcfd7dc46(Use your own instance-id)
- Show Relational Database Service (RDS) instances:
aws rds describe-db-instances
- Query and display EC2 metadata:
ec2metadata[4] (Distributed incloud-guest-utilspackage at least in Debian)
Basic AWS S3 commands
- List your buckets:
aws s3api list-buckets
- List your buckets in all regions:
for region_name in ap-south-1 eu-west-3 eu-west-2 eu-west-1 ap-northeast-2 ap-northeast-1 sa-east-1 ca-central-1 ap-southeast-1 ap-southeast-2 eu-central-1 us-east-1 us-east-2 us-west-1 us-west-2; do aws s3api list-buckets --region $region_name done
aws s3 ls
- If you do not have permisssions you will get the following error:
- An error occurred (AccessDenied) when calling the ListBuckets operation: Access Denied
aws s3 ls your_bucket_nameaws --profile your_profile_name s3 ls your_bucket_name(You can also use a profile to define your credentials)aws s3 cp[5]- Size of a Bucket:
aws s3 ls --summarize --human-readable --recursive s3://bucket-name/[6]
Basic AWS IAM commands
aws iam list-users
- If you do not have permisssions you will get the following error:
- An error occurred (AccessDenied) when calling the ListUsers operation: User: arn:aws:iam::146910341356:user/MY_USERNAME is not authorized to perform: iam:ListUsers on resource: arn:aws:iam::146910341356:user/
aws iam list-user-policies --user-name USERNAME
Basic AWS Security commands
- Authorizing Inbond Traffic from anywhere to TCO port 80[7]
aws ec2 describe-instance-attribute --instance-id YOUR_INSTANCE_ID --attribute groupSetaws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress --group-id YOUR_GROUP_ID --protocol tcp --port 80 --cidr 0.0.0.0/0
Basic AWS ECS commands
aws ecs list-clusters
Basic AWS Config service commands
aws configservice get-status
See Also
- DevOps/Ansible/manage AWS infrastructure using Ansible
- aliyun Alibaba Cloud Computing CLI
- Cloud CLIs: AWS CLI,
eksctl,sam,doctl,gcloud, gsutil,aliyun,google-cloud-sdk,ibmcloud,cf, heroku - IBM Cloud: (IBM Cloud Cli)
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