Day 42: IAM Programmatic access and AWS CLI 🚀 ☁

IAM Programmatic access

In order to access your AWS account from a terminal or system, you can use AWS Access keys and AWS Secret Access keys

AWS CLI

• The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) is a unified tool to manage your AWS services. With just one tool to download and configure, you can control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts.

• The AWS CLI v2 offers several new features including improved installers, new configuration options such as AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS SSO), and various interactive features.

Task-01

Create AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY from AWS Console.

• Go to AWS Management console and search for IAM and click on it.

• Click on Users in IAM resource and click on Create user.

• Specify your User name and click on Next.

• Now Set permission page will open in that select Attach policies directly and select Administrator Access and scroll down and click on Next.

• Now Review and create page will open keep it default and click on Create user.

• Now click on you User name and got Security credentials there you will see Access keys in that click on create access key

• Now Access key best practices & alternatives page will open in that Click on Command Line Interface (CLI) and select Confirmation and click on Next.

• Now Set description tag - optional page will open keep it as default and click on Create access key and click on Download .csv file or Copy your Access key and Secret access key separately in notepad.

Task-02

Setup and install AWS CLI and configure your account credentials

• Open your system terminal and update and upgrade them using this commands.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

• Now install AWS CLI in your system using this command.

sudo apt install curl -y
curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install

• Check the version of your AWS CLI

aws --version

• To Setup your AWS CLI execute this command given below after that it will ask AWS Access Key ID [None] and AWS Security access key there you have to past your Access and Security key which you have downloaded or Copied and click on Enter 2times.

aws cofigure

• You can verify the configuration by running the command aws configure list.