# AWS CLI: Installation and Configuration

## **INTRODUCTION**

Amazon Web Services Command Line Interface `(AWS CLI)` is a powerful tool that enables users to interact with AWS services and manage their cloud resources from the command line. `AWS CLI` provides a command-line interface for AWS services, allowing developers, system administrators, and DevOps professionals to automate tasks, configure services, and perform various operations without the need for a graphical user interface.

The AWS Command Line Interface is an open-source tool that enables you to manage AWS services from the Command line. `AWS CLI` is a unified tool to manage your AWS services. It allows you to control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts.

### **Step 1:**

Now, we will Install the AWS CLI on our local machine. `(In my case my local machine is Ubuntu.)`

### Firstly, we will update our system.

1. ```plaintext
        sudo apt-get update
    ```
    

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### Now we will **Install AWS CLI**:

a. Open a terminal.

b. Run the following command to install AWS CLI using curl:

```plaintext
curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
```

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### Unzip the AWS CLI:

Unzip the file `awscli2.zip`

```plaintext
 unzip awscliv2.zip
```

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After unzipping, we will see an AWS folder. Just go into the AWS folder using cd and then you will see an install file.

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### Install the `install` file :

`sudo ./install`

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After installation, you can verify it by running:

```plaintext
aws --version 
/usr/local/bin/aws --version
```

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## Step 2:

### We will configure the AWS CLI:

Enter the following command and press Enter:

`aws configure`

We have to enter the AWS Access Key ID:

We have to enter the AWS Secret Access Key:

Enter `default` Region Name:

Enter Default Output Format: (EG: 'json', 'text', 'table', 'yaml',yaml-stream):

(NOTES:- All this details you will get in your AWS Account)

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### In the last step: Check whether your aws cli is working or not just use:

`aws sts get-caller-identity`

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