aws-cli is the Amazon Web Services Command Line Interface
aws-cli is an open source project that provides a command line interface to the Amazon Web Services APIs.
The project is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli
Questions tagged [aws-cli]
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Problems using EC2 command line tools on one of the instances
I'm having a bit of a problem with EC2 API tools timing out on a new instance I created.
Yesterday I took an image of a server on which the tools worked fine. I made some changes to the software it runs, and init scripts, which I needed to support…
Kasia Gogolek
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Can't use execute-command --interactive in AWS CLI session manager
I'm trying to use the AWS cli + session manager plugin to get into a database container to run some migrations, and I am struggling to get it working. I'm trying to use the following command:
aws ecs execute-command --cluster {cluster} --task…
HDuck
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Is there a minimal aws cli installation?
Sometimes I'd like to spin up an instance and run an aws cli command on it quickly, but there seems to be a great delay in installing the aws cli. Is there any way to get a "minimal" installation that omits the many files unnecessary in an…
Mike Godin
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How can I search across CloudWatch log groups on AWS?
I have a number of lambda functions which run my serverless backend. Something somewhere is misbehaving, and I need to bring up/search all the logs from a particular time — from all log groups, not just a single one, or a single stream.
Is there a…
Mike Ashelby
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Schedule RDS upgrades/downgrades
I have a project that sends notifications to various services. Users manage their subscriptions 24 hours a day, but we need a stronger MySQL RDS instance during the week (t3.xlarge), specifically Tue-Thu because that's when most of our…
Ben
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AWS Cloudformation Template error: every Ref object must have a single String value
SNSTopic
Type: 'AWS::SNS'......
SNSTopic2
Type: 'AWS::SNS'.......
EventRule:
Type: 'AWS::Events::Rule'
Properties:
Name: !Ref EventRuleName
Description:
State: ENABLED
EventPattern: '
{
}'
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SadikKhan
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How to post logs to Cloudwatch with CLI?
Im tring to create a bash script that checks the status of the website, Im using this command:
This one to create the logstream
aws logs create-log-stream --log-group-name "WebsiteStatusMessage" --log-stream-name $timestamp
This other one to post…
sysalam0
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How to find out the endpoint url of a node of a redis cluster via aws cli 'elasticache describe-cache-clusters'?
If I run aws elasticache describe-cache-clusters I will get results like this:
{
"CacheClusterId": "dev-001",
"ClientDownloadLandingPage": "https://console.aws.amazon.com/elasticache/home#client-download:",
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Anthony Kong
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Using the AWS CLI tool for s3 sync -- how can I specify the storage tier?
I'm using the AWS CLI to use Amazon's S3 storage for backing up files:
aws s3 sync /backup-these-files s3://my-backup
How can I specify the x-amz-storage-class header, to tell it to put these files into the STANDARD-IA storage tier?
I can't figure…
Eric
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S3 PUT directly to glacier
This AWS post from 2018 makes it sound like it should be possible to make S3 style PUT requests to create archives in glacier now:
I'm interpreting that to mean that you could use the s3 CLI or sdk interactions for uploading files, rather than the…
Ben Pennell
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AWS cli filter not applied
I want to receive some values from an AWS SecurityGroup and am using the following command:
aws ec2 describe-security-groups --group-ids $GROUP \
--filters 'Name=ip-permission.from-port,Values=22 Name=ip-permission.to-port,Values=22' \
--query…
Carsten
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Using aws cli sync include and exclude with delete option
aws s3 sync /WordProcessing/DOCUMENTS s3://mybigbucket --delete --include "*" --exclude ".DS_Store"
If somehow .DS_Store made its way to the AWS S3 mybigbucket (from a previous backup), using the above command does not delete the .DS_Store files…
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Is it possible to force update of Route53 DNS resolver cache in AWS when IP changes?
I have several VPC's set up in AWS, and all of my instances use provisioned IP addresses, that is - not using Elastic IP Addresses.
When any given instance boots up, it executes a script on the machine (post networking), which gets the Instance ID,…
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Environment credentials are ignored by "aws ec2 describe-customer-gateways"
So I'm trying to list the customer gateways in an account using AWS CLI. The problem is that I can only get it to work with credentials from a profile, not from environment variables.
I know I must be missing something simple here, but I can't for…
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How to log into new EC2 instance
Trying to connect using CentOS7
I deployed a couple of EC2 instances using terraform and now and trying to log in.
aws2 ec2-instance-connect send-ssh-public-key --instance-id i-0788274a4861154d44 --availability-zone us-east-2 --instance-os-user…
James Connigan
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