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Using the AWS CLI

Using the AWS CLI - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Using the AWS CLI

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- Before we can use the AWS Command Line Interface, we do need to install it and then configure it. Our goal for this particular lesson is to get it installed and get it configured. Now, a quick disclaimer, there is a piece of information in this lesson that we have not covered yet, and that is the creation of a programmatic user, and the assignment of programmatic user keys. So just know that in the IAM lesson, we will be covering what that means, but in this demonstration, I am going to be provisioning those keys and assigning them to my installation of the Command Line Interface. So on Linux, you can install it with the pip application. This is Python Installs Packages. The Amazon AWS Command Line Interface is written in Python, and it uses the Python SDK for AWS called Boto3. The installation is as simple as running pip install awscli or pip3 install awscli if you have Python v2.0 and Python v3.0 installed side by side pip3 install awscli will get it installed for you. If you are…

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