


Maybe it’s time you checked out the AWS CLI (Command Line Interface). The AWS CLI is a unified tool to manage your AWS services from a terminal session on your own PC. With just one tool to download and configure, you can control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts. In this article, I will show you how to install the AWS CLI on your Windows PC or on a Linux, Mac, or Unix Operating System. The more you use the AWS CLI, the more you’ll see how powerful it is. In any case, here’s how it works: AWS CLI setup: Download and installation on Windows Cloud Academy has a terrific course on the AWS CLI that can guide you through some of the interface’s more sophisticated uses. Download the appropriate MSI installer.The 64-bit version of the AWS CLI does not currently work with Windows Server 2008 (version ). Please use the 32-bit installer with this version of Windows. To confirm the installation, use the aws -version command at a command prompt (open the START menu and search for “cmd” if you’re not sure how to find the command prompt). The CLI installs to C:\Program Files (x86)\Amazon\AWSCLI C:\Program Files (x86)\Amazon\AWSCLI>aws -version The CLI installs to C:\Program Files\Amazon\AWSCLI C:\Program Files\Amazon\AWSCLI>aws -version #DOWNLOAD AWS CLI FOR WINDOWS HOW TO# It's not advisable to use a root user as they have access to everything.However, we’ve only installed AWS CLI on your PC. The reason we do that is that, its so that we can restrict access to that particular user. So the next step is we need to configure our user, and that we can use programmatically with this. So that's confirmed it's installed correctly.

And there you can see, you get the version number of the cli, version number of python, and it's running on a Windows 2012 server. So everything you do in the cli will always start with aws, which makes a call to the command line interface. We have a command we can use called aws. Now that's installed, I'm going to open parashell, and just check that it's installed correctly. I'm installing it to the default location. (upbeat music) - Hello, and welcome to Techsnip where I will show you how to install Amazon web services command line interface.
