Preparing AWS CLI tools
AWS CLI is a set of unified command-line tools to work with multiple AWS services. Using AWS CLI tools you can manage EC2 resources (such as instances, security groups, and volumes) and your VPC resources (such as VPCs, subnets, route tables, and Internet gateways).
How to do it…
In the following two sections, we list the set of instructions required to accomplish this on Linux and Windows/Mac platforms.
Getting access key ID and secret access key
You need AWS access key ID and AWS secret access key to access AWS services. Instead of generating these credentials from the root account, it's always best practice to use IAM users. You should save these credentials in a secure location. If you lose these keys, you must delete the ...
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