Install AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

AWS CLI or Amazon Web Service Command Line Interface is a command line tool for managing and administering your Amazon Web Services. AWS CLI provides direct access to the public API (Application Programming Interface) of Amazon Web Services. Since it’s a command line tool, you can also use it to create scripts for automating your Amazon Web Services.

Prerequisites: 

• Ubuntu 18.04 box 
• A User with sudo access

Step 1- Update packages repository:

In order to start the installation of AWS CLI, First, update repositories' metadata followed by the commands below.

$ sudo apt update

Step 2- Install AWS CLI:

AWS CLI available in Ubuntu official repository, Run the following command to start AWS CLI installation.

$ sudo apt install awscli

Press Y during the installation when it prompt.

Once the installation is done, run the following command to check the installed version.

$ aws --version

AWS CLI Version 1.14.44 has been installed with Python-3.6 version.

Step 3- Configure AWS CLI:

After successful installation of AWS CLI, Let's configure our credentials to execute and manage our AWS resources using CLI.

$ aws configure

AWS Access Key ID [None]: AKIAJHC7EEWFSSuYUYUU
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: 1JKjii879jkjkfkslfie99r9lksfjlkKJVLL
Default region name [None]: us-east-1
Default output format [None]: table

After running the command "aws configure" enter AWS Access Key, Secret Key, Default region and default output.

Step 4- Test AWS CLI & Access:
Let's test our AWS CLI configuration by running the following commands.

List S3 buckets:

$ aws s3 ls s3://bucketname

All subfolders are listing from my bucket.

AWS CLI working as expected. Now you can configure the commands as per your requirement. 

Stop EC2 Instance:

$ aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids i-3489eegh

In the above command change your Instance ID and run the command. I will stop your instance.

Start EC2 Instance:

$ aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids i-3489eegh

Using the above command you can easily start your instance.

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