AWS Classroom Series – 30/May/2021

AWS CLI for EC2

• AWS CLI Commands will be in the form of

aws service <command/action> --parameter1 value1 ... --parametern valuen

• Refer Here for the command line reference of AWS CLI

• Refer Here for the aws cli for ec2.

• To work with AWS CLI Commands we need an IAM User Refer Here to create an IAM User

• Create a user and make a note of access key id & secret access key

• Now configure aws cli using aws configure and enter region (code), access key and secret access key

• In AWS CLI the commands with prefix

  • describe generally indicates get/select

• Lets work with some describe commands

  • Describing security groups Refer Here

• The Result of any command will have a certain output structure as mentioned in documentation

  • For the output structure of describe-security-groups Refer Here

• We can filter for the specifics using JMES PATH

• Refer Here for some of the commands explored

Creation Commands

• In AWS CLI creation commands will generally be prefixed with create

• Lets try to find a command to create an ec2 instance we need to use command run-instances Refer Here

• While creating ec2 instance we provide

  • AMI
  • instance type
  • security group
  • key pair
  • tags

• Copy the AMI id of Amazon Linux 2

• Refer Here for the cli commands to create and control the instances.