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AWS CLI Commands Cheat Sheet

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Aws CLI Cheatsheet

These are some of the most useful commands in the AWS CLI. See this documentation for details:

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https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/index.html
  1. S3 Commands.
    • Lists directories in the S3 service.
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      aws s3 ls
    • Create a bucket
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      aws s3 mb s3://mybucket
    • Copy a file into S3
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      aws s3 cp /Users/me/Documents/myfile.txt s3://mybucket/myfiles/myfile.txt
    • Copy a file out of S3
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      aws s3 cp s3://mybucket/myfiles/myfile.txt /Users/me/Documents/myfile.txt
    • Copy all files out of S3
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      aws s3 cp s3://mybucket/Database_Storage/csv_10_Oct . --recursive
  2. EC2 Commands
    • Describe EC2 Instances
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      aws ec2 describe-instances
    • Describe images
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      aws ec2 describe-images --owners amazon --filters "Name=platform,Values=linux" "Name=root-device-type,Values=ebs"
    • Run Instances
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      aws ec2 run-instances --image-id ami-0b33d91d --count 1 --instance-type t2.micro --key-name NSI_EC2_AccessKey --security-group-ids sg-342cea4b --subnet-id subnet-df1835f2
    • Terminate Instances
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      aws ec2 terminate-instances --instance-ids i-08d7d0264926c57aa
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