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”