AWS CLI

AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is an open source tool offered by Amazon used to manage any of your AWS services. It enables you to interact with AWS services programmatically using commands in your terminal window. You can call AWS CLI in IguanaX to automate and manage AWS services workflows.

For instance, you can use AWS CLI to manage and interact with AWS EC2 instances (virtual machines). Our EC2 AWS CLI Adapter is a great example of this.

You can find all the different Service's CLI commands in the AWS CLI documentation.

In order to use the AWS CLI tool, you first need to install and configure it on your machine:

You can follow the AWS documentation to install AWS CLI according to your operating system.

This is what it looks like installing in MacOS:

We are configuring short term credentials using AWS CLI commands.

Use the aws configure command, you will be prompted to provide your AWS details below:

Here’s what it would look like with sample credentials:

aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
Default region name [None]: us-west-2
Default output format [None]: json