ec2-api tools

Installing aws-cli ***sudo apt-get install -y python-pip ***sudo pip install awscli Add your Access Key ID and Secret Access Key to$HOME/.aws-config using this format: *** sudo vi $HOME/.aws-config ***************************************************** [default] aws_access_key_id = aws_secret_access_key = region = eu-west-1 ***************************************************** Protect the config file: chmod 600 $HOME/.aws-config Set an environment variable pointing to config file. For future convenience, also add this line to your $HOME/.bashrc export AWS_CONFIG_FILE=$HOME/.aws-config Now, wasn’t that a lot easier than installing and configuring all of the old tools? Testing Test your installation and configuration: aws ec2 describe-regions The default output is in JSON. You can try out other output formats: aws ec2 describe-regions –output text aws ec2 describe-regions –output table Details: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-welcome.html