AWS CLI

External

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-welcome.html

Internal

• Amazon AWS
• EC2 CLI

Overview

AWS CLI is a package that provides commands for interacting with the AWS services. All functionality available on the web Amazon Management Console is made available from command line.

Installation

curl "https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cli/awscli-bundle.zip" -o "awscli-bundle.zip"

unzip awscli-bundle.zip

sudo ./awscli-bundle/install -i /usr/local/aws -b /usr/local/bin/aws

Result (it should be already in PATH):

aws --version
aws-cli/1.16.25 Python/2.7.10 Darwin/17.7.0 botocore/1.12.15

TODO

Define the relationship between the AWS CLI and EC2 CLI