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AWS CLI

Amazon Web Services

Unified command line interface to Amazon Web Services. Provides direct access to AWS service APIs.

Cloud ProvidersJSON

docs repo .json

01Install

brew install awscli

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02Agent Notes

AWS CLI uses a service-based command structure: `aws <service> <operation>`. Always pass `--output json --no-cli-pager` for machine-readable output. Most read operations start with `describe-` or `list-`. Most mutating operations start with `create-`, `delete-`, `modify-`, or `update-`. Region must be specified via --region flag or AWS_REGION env var.

03Help Output

usage: aws [options] <command> <subcommand> [<subcommand> ...] [parameters] To see help text, you can run: aws help aws <command> help aws <command> <subcommand> help aws: error: the following arguments are required: command

04Global Flags

Flag	Type	Description
`--region`	string	AWS region to target
`--profile`	string	Named profile from credentials file
`--output`	enum [json, text, table, yaml]	Output format
`--no-cli-pager`	boolean	Disable automatic pagination of output

05Authentication

Methods

environment-variablesconfig-fileinstance-rolesso

Env vars

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_IDAWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEYAWS_SESSION_TOKENAWS_PROFILEAWS_REGION

Config files

~/.aws/credentials~/.aws/config

Setupaws configure

Docsdocs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-files.html

06Capabilities

Compute Management Storage Management Database Management Networking Identity & Access Serverless Container Orchestration Monitoring Cost Management

Reference

binaryaws

checkaws --version

authenvironment-variables, config-file, instance-role, sso

formatstable, text, yaml, yaml-stream

json flag--output json

version1.44.58