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AWS Command Line Interface

Table of Contents

• configure
• ec2
• s3

configure

• http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html

# when '--profile' omitted, considered it as 'default'
$ aws configure --profile user2
AWS Access Key ID [None]: AKIAI44QH8DHBEXAMPLE
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: je7MtGbClwBF/2Zp9Utk/h3yCo8nvbEXAMPLEKEY
Default region name [None]: us-east-1
Default output format [None]: text

# Specify options as arguments
aws ec2 describe-instances --output table --region us-west-1

ec2

• http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/index.html#cli-aws-ec2

# Make the instance terminable (Disable Termination Protection)
aws ec2 modify-instance-attribute --instance-id <value> --no-disable-api-termination

s3

• http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/index.html#available-commands

aws s3 mv test.txt s3://mybucket/test2.txt
aws s3 mv s3://mybucket/test.txt s3://mybucket/test2.txt
aws s3 mv s3://mybucket/test.txt test2.txt
aws s3 mv s3://mybucket . --recursive
aws s3 mv myDir s3://mybucket/ --recursive --exclude "*.jpg"
aws s3 mv s3://mybucket/ s3://mybucket2/ --recursive --exclude "mybucket/another/*"