Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cheet Sheet

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AWS CLI

Setup

apt install awscli
aws configure set aws_access_key_id <AWS_ACCESS_KEY> [--profile <PROF_NAME>]
aws configure set aws_secret_access_key <AWS_SECRET_KEY> [--profile <PROF_NAME>]
aws configure set region "eu-west-1" [--profile <PROF_NAME>]

Profiles

List Available Profiles

$ cat ~/.aws/credentials
# OR
$ aws configure list

S3

# Sync local directory to AWS location. Use -sse only if stored encrypted.
aws s3 sync . s3://your/dir --sse

# Cat file to STDOUT
s3 cp s3://mybucket/stream.txt -.