How to install aws cli in ubuntu
Amazon Web Services is the market leader in cloud computing at present. It provides a variety of services with flexible price module. This flexibility attracts big companies as well as small business minds to use these services. AWS provides a graphical console which is browser-based, but it also provides a command line interface for those who know how to use it.
Why do we need to install aws cli?
The AWS CLI (Command Line Interface) is a unique tool for managing your AWS services. You will need to download and configure this tool, and you can control almost all of the AWS services from the command line if you install aws cli. You can also automate these services through scripts.
Although you can use all of the services through AWS Management Console by signing in with your account, there are other ways like APIs and aws cli that you can use to manage almost all of the important services. Amazon Web Services provide us the option of using aws cli with just a minimal installation and configuration process. You only need some information if you want to install aws cli on a Ubuntu system or any other Linux system.
Things to be noted before you proceed to install aws cli on in your Ubuntu server:
- AWS Access Key ID
- AWS Secret Access Key
- Default region name
- Default output format
I have also given some examples at the end of this installation part that how you can upload or download an object on the s3 bucket using aws cli.
[email protected]:~$ sudo apt update -y [email protected]:~$ sudo su [email protected]:~# aws --version The program 'aws' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: apt install awscli
[email protected]:~# apt install awscli -y Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... 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Check aws version once again,
[email protected]:~# aws --version aws-cli/1.11.13 Python/3.5.2 Linux/4.4.0-150-generic botocore/1.4.70
Now run the configure command,
[email protected]:~# aws configure AWS Access Key ID [None]: BKIAIUURA62UHU7DZN6D AWS Secret Access Key [None]: u0GvMOHwVMXu2wGeYRVK0NW7IWXq6ge/7DEuqv54 Default region name [None]: us-east-1 Default output format [None]: text
Now you can list the content of that bucket,
[email protected]:~# aws s3 ls s3://s3bucket-name/desired-dir-name/ 2019-06-22 03:01:08 75877 db_backup-20190622.sql 2019-06-23 03:01:09 75877 db_backup-20190623.sql 2019-06-24 03:01:09 75877 db_backup-20190624.sql 2019-06-25 03:01:10 75877 db_backup-20190625.sql 2019-06-26 03:01:09 75877 db_backup-20190626.sql
Copy file to an s3 bucket from the local server,
[email protected]:~# aws s3 cp /local-directory/filename s3://s3bucket-name/desired-dir-name/
Download file from s3bucket into a local server,
[email protected]:~# aws s3 cp s3://s3bucket-name/desired-dir-name/filename /local-directory/
Sync a local directory with s3bucket,
[email protected]:~# aws s3 sync /local-directory/ s3://s3bucket-name/desired-dir-name/
Conclusion:
With this piece of article, I have tried my best to simplify things about the installation and configuration part of aws cli. By following these steps you can easily install aws cli and use AWS services through the command line.
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