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Getting Started with

AWS Command Line

Tools on Windows

By Firoz Sabaliya

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Contents

I. Basic Installation steps ........................................................................................................ 4

1. Download the AWS Command Line Tool for windows from Amazon site: https://aws.amazon.com/cli/ ................................................................................................... 4

2. Install the exe file. .................................................................................................................................... 5

3. Verify your AWS CLI in your installation directory. ......................................................................... 6

II. Create IAM user and attach user policy using AWS management console ........................................................................................................... 7

1. Sign in your AWS account using email id and password .................................................................. 7

2. Go To Amazon IAM .............................................................................................................................. 8

3. Create a New user ................................................................................................................................... 8

4. Enter user name, tick “ generate an access key pair for each user” and click on “Create” button ............................................................................................................................. 9

5. After successful creation of user click on “Download Credentials” ............................................... 9

6. One CSV file will be downloaded in your PC. Open that file in notepad. You can see your username, Access key and Secrete Access key in text format ........................................................................................................................................................... 10

7. Now we have to assign user policy to newly created user. Click on “Attach user policy” permission tab on same page IAM. ........................................................................... 10

8. Select “Administrator Access” ............................................................................................................ 11

9. Then click on “ Apply Policy” ............................................................................................................ 12

10. Verify user policy ................................................................................................................................... 13

III. Execute AWS Commands using windows command prompt ............................................ 14

1. Open “Run” window and type “cmd” ............................................................................................. 14

2. Go to Amazon folder. .......................................................................................................................... 15

3. Enter your IAM credentials ................................................................................................................. 16

IV. Create EC2 instance using AWS Command Line Tool ...................................................... 17

1. Check any instance running on your AWS account ........................................................................ 17

2. Create a new key pair ............................................................................................................................ 18

3. Let’s change the output display format as “table” ........................................................................... 19

4. Now create a security group ................................................................................................................ 20

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5. Verify security group is created. .......................................................................................................... 21

6. Make sure you have selected proper region ...................................................................................... 21

7. To create EC2 instance first you have get AMI id ........................................................................... 22

8. Command for creating EC2 instance ................................................................................................. 23

9. Verify your EC2 instance is created ................................................................................................... 24

10. Don’t forgot to delete EC2 instance .................................................................................................. 24

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Basic Installation steps

1. Download the AWS Command Line Tool for windows from Amazon site:

https://aws.amazon.com/cli/

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2. Install the exe file.

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3. Verify your AWS CLI in your installation directory.

Here in my case it is C:\Program Files\Amazon\AWSCLI

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Create IAM user and attach user policy using AWS

management console

1. Sign in your AWS account using email id and password

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2. Go To Amazon IAM

3. Create a New user

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4. Enter user name, tick “ generate an access key pair for each user” and click

on “Create” button

5. After successful creation of user click on “Download Credentials”

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6. One CSV file will be downloaded in your PC. Open that file in notepad. You

can see your username, Access key and Secrete Access key in text format

7. Now we have to assign user policy to newly created user. Click on “Attach

user policy” permission tab on same page IAM.

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8. Select “Administrator Access”

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9. Then click on “ Apply Policy”

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10. Verify user policy

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Execute AWS Commands using windows

command prompt

1. Open “Run” window and type “cmd”

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2. Go to Amazon folder.

In my case: cd C:\Program Files\Amazon\AWSCLI\awscli

Type: aws help (To verify CLI installation)

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3. Enter your IAM credentials

Type command: aws configure

Then enter your AWS access key ID, AWS secret access key, region name (default

value: us-west-2) and output format (default value: json)

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Create EC2 instance using AWS Command Line

Tool

1. Check any instance running on your AWS account

CMD: aws ec2 describe-instances

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2. Create a new key pair

a. Give any name to key pair (In my case “attune-key”)

b. CMD: aws ec2 create-key-pair --key-name "attune-key"

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3. Let’s change the output display format as “table”

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4. Now create a security group

Cmd: aws ec2 create-security-group --group-name "attune-group" --description "attune"

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5. Verify security group is created.

6. Make sure you have selected proper region

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7. To create EC2 instance first you have get AMI id

a. To get ami id go to EC2 Dash board then click on Launch instance

b. Get the Amazon Linux AMI id

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8. Command for creating EC2 instance

aws ec2 run-instances --image-id ami-043a5034 --count 1 --instance-type t1.micro --key-

name attune-key --security-groups attune-group

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9. Verify your EC2 instance is created

10. Don’t forgot to delete EC2 instance

Cmd: aws ec2 terminate-instances --instance-ids i-4887b840

Get your instance id from above screen