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AWS CLI Intro

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You may not know this, but AWS CLI help messages are very easy to access. First, try typing: $ aws help

This command brings up the aws man page.

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Great! When you're done, you can quit with q. Next, please configure the default aws cli credentials with the access key AKQAAYRKO7A5Q5XUY2IY, the secret key qzTscgNdcdwIo/soPKPoJn9sBrl5eMQQL19iO5uf and the region us-east-1. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-quickstart.html#cli-configure-quickstart-config

Using aws configure I went through the motions:

elf@dc3a94f9f683:~$ aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: AKQAAYRKO7A5Q5XUY2IY
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: qzTscgNdcdwIo/soPKPoJn9sBrl5eMQQL19iO5uf
Default region name [None]: us-east-1
Default output format [None]:

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Excellent! To finish, please get your caller identity using the AWS command line. For more details please reference: $ aws sts help or reference: https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/sts/index.html

This command can be found by perusing the man pages that are displayed after running aws sts help. For this, I ran:

aws sts get-caller-identity

{
    "UserId": "AKQAAYRKO7A5Q5XUY2IY",
    "Account": "602143214321",
    "Arn": "arn:aws:iam::602143214321:user/elf_helpdesk"
}