AWS - AWS CLI commands

AWS CLI commands

• AWS CLI commands
  • Using the AWS SDK for Python

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see the account number and your user ID:

$ aws sts get-caller-identity
{
    "Account": "12345678",
    "UserId": "AROAXYHPXEBY7QBCBKPP2:user762073=user@example.com",
    "Arn": "arn:aws:sts::12345678:assumed-role/voclabs/user762073=user@example.com"
}

have any EC2 instances running in the sandbox, running this command would provide information about them:

$ aws ec2 describe-instances
{
    "Reservations": []
}

Using the AWS SDK for Python

The terminal also has Python 3 installed with the boto 3 library available.

to run AWS Python SDK code

$ python3
>>> import boto3
>>> ec2 = boto3.client('ec2', region_name='us-east-1')
>>> ec2.describe_regions()
>>> exit()
$

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