AWS CLI Installation & Configuration

Installation:-

To play with AWS with command line, you need to install aws cli on your machine so following

are the steps/commands to install on linux (ubuntu)

Installing AWS CLI at Ubuntu:-

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install awscli

Installing AWS CLI at CentOS 9/8:-

sudo dnf install awscli

aws –version

Configure AWS on the server:-

Type the following command on your machine terminal

aws configure

Above command will need following information

AWS Access Key ID [None]: Paste here your actual key id

AWS Secret Access Key [None]: Paste here your actual access key

Default region name [None]: us-west-1

Default output format [None]: json

After AWS configuration the aws commands will work.

Reset AWS Credentials:-

just remove ~/.aws/credentials along with ~/.aws/config

rm -rf ~/.aws/credentials

rm -rf ~/.aws/config

Some AWS Commands:-

For moving file to S3:-

aws s3 mv mysite-dev.tar.gz s3://xl-john/

For listing files in S3 bucket:-

aws s3 ls s3://xl-john/

aws s3 ls s3://xl-john –recursive –human-readable –summarize (For detailed view)For removing file from AWS S3:-

aws s3 rm s3://xl-john/mysite-dev.tar.gz

Download from AWS S3:-

aws s3 cp s3://xl-john/mysite-dev.tar.gz /var/www/mysite-dev.tar.gz

List all buckets:-

aws s3api list-buckets –query “Buckets[].Name”