AWS Command Line Interface
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AWS Command Line Interface
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Environment variables
- AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
- Your Access key ID
- AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
- Your Secret access key
- AWS_DEFAULT_REGION
- Your region code
Basic configuration
Example:
$ aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: AKIAVB2U2RLDBY36QU2G
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: 6KlgHQm8CwSHnFpwNyYZkETU0AIU0Md2HXmMz3NK
Default region name [None]: ap-northeast-2
Default output format [None]: json
This saves a config file and a credentials file in the ~/.aws directory. Their contents are as follows.
$ cat ~/.aws/config
[default]
region = ap-northeast-2
output = json
$ cat ~/.aws/credentials
[default]
aws_access_key_id = AKIAVB2U2RLDBY36QU2G
aws_secret_access_key = 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
Checking the configuration
$ aws configure list
Name Value Type Location
---- ----- ---- --------
profile <not set> None None
access_key ****************QK2G env
secret_key ****************z3NK env
region ap-northeast-2 env ['AWS_REGION', 'AWS_DEFAULT_REGION']