Tutorial of AWS CLI

How to Install AWS Cli :

• Windows  Download and run the 64-bit or 32-bit Windows installer
• Mac et Linux Python 2.6.5 or later required.  Installation via pip.

$ pip install awscli 

Before you run any commands, set your default credentials, using command :

$ aws configure
    AWS Access Key ID [None]: Your-AWS-Access-Key
    AWS Secret Access Key [None]: Your-AWS-Secret-Access-Key
    Default region name [None]: us-west-2
    Default output format [None]: ENTER

To get Access Key go to AWS Console in section profile  and create Access Key  to get AWSAccessKeyId and AWSSecretKey

Run a command to verify that your credentials are configured correctly and that you can connect to AWS.

$ aws ec2 describe-regions --output table

Example 1 : Copy file from you Mac to S3 backet

Start by creating on AWS Console S3 service an S3 bucket named my-test-rcherara-backet

Now with command line we list show this backet and to copy from local station file in this s3 backet with the following commad :

$ aws s3 ls
$ aws s3 cp rcherara-file-to-copy-in-s3.txt  s3://my-test-rcherara-backet/
$ aws s3 ls my-test-rcherara-backet

Result:

For more information about s3 command see this link.

Example 2 : Create Security Group :

$ aws ec2 create-security-group --group-name my-sg --description "My security group"

Let's see this group in AWS Console :

Example 3 : Create VPC

This example creates a VPC with the specified IPv4 CIDR block.

Command:

$ aws ec2 create-vpc --cidr-block 10.0.0.0/16

Let's see the result in AWS Console :

Example 4 : Create subnet

$ aws ec2 create-subnet --vpc-id vpc-a01106c2 --cidr-block 10.0.1.0/24

Example 5 : ec2

To Create a Key Pair use this command :

$ aws ec2 create-key-pair --key-name MyKeyPair --query 'KeyMaterial' --output text > MyKeyPair.pem

We use this Key Pair ( in my case is : rcherara-KeyPair-cli.pem ) to create our EC2 instances.

The following command launches a t2.micro instance in the specified subnet:

$ aws ec2 run-instances --image-id ami-xxxxxxxx --count 1 --instance-type t2.micro --key-name MyKeyPair --security-group-ids sg-xxxxxxxx --subnet-id subnet-xxxxxxxx

aws ec2 run-instances --image-id ami-xxxxxxxx --count 1 --instance-type t2.micro --key-name rcherara-KeyPair-cli --security-group-ids sg-xxxxxxxx --subnet-id subnet-xxxxxxxx

$ aws ec2 run-instances --image-id ami-xxxxxxxx --count 1 --instance-type t2.micro --key-name MyKeyPair --security-group-ids sg-xxxxxxxx --subnet-id subnet-xxxxxxxx
{
    "OwnerId": "123456789012",
    "ReservationId": "r-5875ca20",
    "Groups": [
        {
            "GroupName": "my-sg",
            "GroupId": "sg-903004f8"
        }
    ],
    "Instances": [
        {
            "Monitoring": {
                "State": "disabled"
            },
            "PublicDnsName": null,
            "Platform": "windows",
            "State": {
                "Code": 0,
                "Name": "pending"
            },
            "EbsOptimized": false,
            "LaunchTime": "2013-07-19T02:42:39.000Z",
            "PrivateIpAddress": "10.0.1.114",
            "ProductCodes": [],
            "VpcId": "vpc-1a2b3c4d",
            "InstanceId": "i-5203422c",
            "ImageId": "ami-173d747e",
            "PrivateDnsName": ip-10-0-1-114.ec2.internal,
            "KeyName": "MyKeyPair",
            "SecurityGroups": [
                {
                    "GroupName": "my-sg",
                    "GroupId": "sg-903004f8"
                }
            ],
            "ClientToken": null,
            "SubnetId": "subnet-6e7f829e",
            "InstanceType": "t2.micro",
            "NetworkInterfaces": [
                {
                    "Status": "in-use",
                    "SourceDestCheck": true,
                    "VpcId": "vpc-1a2b3c4d",
                    "Description": "Primary network interface",
                    "NetworkInterfaceId": "eni-a7edb1c9",
                    "PrivateIpAddresses": [
                        {
                            "PrivateDnsName": "ip-10-0-1-114.ec2.internal",
                            "Primary": true,
                            "PrivateIpAddress": "10.0.1.114"
                        }
                    ],
                    "PrivateDnsName": "ip-10-0-1-114.ec2.internal",
                    "Attachment": {
                        "Status": "attached",
                        "DeviceIndex": 0,
                        "DeleteOnTermination": true,
                        "AttachmentId": "eni-attach-52193138",
                        "AttachTime": "2013-07-19T02:42:39.000Z"
                    },
                    "Groups": [
                        {
                            "GroupName": "my-sg",
                            "GroupId": "sg-903004f8"
                        }
                    ],
                    "SubnetId": "subnet-6e7f829e",
                    "OwnerId": "123456789012",
                    "PrivateIpAddress": "10.0.1.114"
                }              
            ],
            "SourceDestCheck": true,
            "Placement": {
                "Tenancy": "default",
                "GroupName": null,
                "AvailabilityZone": "us-west-2b"
            },
            "Hypervisor": "xen",
            "BlockDeviceMappings": [
                {
                    "DeviceName": "/dev/sda1",
                    "Ebs": {
                        "Status": "attached",
                        "DeleteOnTermination": true,
                        "VolumeId": "vol-877166c8",
                        "AttachTime": "2013-07-19T02:42:39.000Z"
                    }
                }              
            ],
            "Architecture": "x86_64",
            "StateReason": {
                "Message": "pending",
                "Code": "pending"
            },
            "RootDeviceName": "/dev/sda1",
            "VirtualizationType": "hvm",
            "RootDeviceType": "ebs",
            "Tags": [
                {
                    "Value": "MyInstance",
                    "Key": "Name"
                }
            ],
            "AmiLaunchIndex": 0
        }
    ]
}