AWS CLI

• AWS has three interfaces to communicate
  • Web interface: AWS Console console.aws.amazone.com
  • Command Line Interface: AWS CLI
  • Code interface: SDK (boto3, java sdk, .net)
• CLI Interfaces help us in automation
• AWS Programmatic and console access
  
• Create an IAM User with Access Keys
• Installing AWS CLI Refer Here
• Configuring access key and secret key aws configure
• Note: Watch the classroom video for more info

Activities

Activity – 1: Set up AWS CLI and configure IAM User

• Check if aws cli is working or not

aws s3 ls

• Ensure visual studio code is installed
• note: Refer Here for installing all necessary softwares
• Installing and setting up AWS CLI Refer Here

Activity -2: Get RDS db instances and other info

• Refer Here for aws rds cli
• list or get => describe, list, get
• Get all db instances in region ap-south-1
  
  
• AWS CLI output formats Refer Here
  
• Get all subnet groups
  
• here we have a output in json format to understand it better
  
  
• Exercise: (aws ec2 cli)
  • get all ec2 instances in us-west-2
  • get all security groups in us-west-2
  • get all key pairs in us-west-2
  • Remove all the un-necessary security groups, key pairs