What is AWS CLI ??

Nikhil S Wani
3 min readMar 27, 2021

The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is a unified tool to manage your AWS services. With just one tool to download and configure, you can control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts.

How to install AWS CLI version 2 ??

To download AWS CLI latest version 2 Click here or link is given below

Download below software.

Now install the software using double click..

Check software version.

Open command line on windows. execute below command.

aws — version

Configure CLI

To configure CLI first of all create a user in account and download the credentials of the user.

Remembere this credentials are so sensitive and it get only once.

Search for ‘iam’ service. Click on ‘Users’

Click on ‘add user’

Allow programmatic access for user

Set policy for User.

If you want to give all powers. Then go for PoweUserAccess.

Give Key name.

Click on create user.

Download credentials of user.

Now add credentials on AWS CLI.

execute below command

aws configure

add credentals.

If you don't know further steps, we can use ‘help’ command. e.g.

aws help

If you want to perform some using CLI. Go through my next Upcomming Blog.

Thanks For reading…..

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