aws configure

https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/configure/index.html

Commands

aws configure --profile your-new-profile-name
aws configure add-model
   aws configure get
   aws configure set
   aws configure import
   aws configure list
   aws configure list-profiles
   aws configure sso
   aws configure sso-session
   aws configure export-credentials

Examples

• aws configure
• aws configure --profile your-new-profile-name
• aws configure --profile my-read-only
• aws configure list-profiles (aws >= 2.x)
• aws configure list
• aws configure sso
• aws configure set cli_pager ""
• aws configure get

Example

aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: YOUR_accesskey
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: YOUR_secretkey
Default region name [None]: us-west-2
Default output format [None]:

aws configure command will create ~/.aws/config and ~/.aws/credentials files

Related terms

• Config files: .aws/config, .aws/credentials
• aws configure list
• aws iam list-users, aws iam get-user
• export AWS_PROFILE=your_defined_profile
• suaws bash function
• Region (AWS)
• ca_bundle
• Unable to locate credentials
• ecs-cli configure

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID 
AWS_SESSION_TOKEN

See also

• AWS CLI: environmental variables, aws configure, ~/.aws/config, ~/.aws/credentials, ~/.aws/cli/alias, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
• aws configure [ list-profiles | sso | sso-session | set ], ~/.aws/config, .aws/credentials,mfa_serial, AWS cli environmental variables: AWS_PROFILE, AWS_REGION, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION, AWS_SESSION_TOKEN, AWS_ROLE_SESSION_NAME, .aws/, AWS functions, --profile, viawsconfig, viawscredentials