AWS CLI

Mihir Patel
4 min readMar 11, 2021

In this article you will see how to use AWS by the command line .

๐Ÿ”… Create a key pair

๐Ÿ”… Create a security group

๐Ÿ”… Launch an instance using the above created key pair and security group.

๐Ÿ”… Create an EBS volume of 1 GB.

๐Ÿ”… The final step is to attach the above created EBS volume to the instance you created in the previous steps.

We have 3 ways to interact/communicate with AWS Technology i.e

1)Using WebUI: In this we can access the AWS services through Web portal that is by Graphical Interface where we can click and select operations using Mouse.

2)Using CLI (Command Line Interface):For this we have to install one software i.e AWS CLI SDK Tool in our base OS

3)Using Automation i.e by writing program/code

In this Practical You will see Using CLI method โ€ฆโ€ฆ

AWS CLI ??

The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) is an open source tool that enables us to interact with AWS services using commands in our command-line shell. For this we need to install one software for CLI for window you can download from this link

  1. (For Windows): https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2.msi

For Linux and Mac :

  1. (For Linux): https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip
  2. (For Mac): https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2.pkg

1 ) For myside this is Windows base :

First Download This Software then Install by this showing Below Images

Doing Practical By AWS CLI we need to setup Access key and secret key .

So For this first crate IAM user And Put this Access Key And Secret Key In this Cli .

First Crate IAM User Then Do below Work ..

1)Login in to AWS Account

> aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: *******************
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: ***************
Default region name [None]: ap-south-1
Default output format [None]: json

Now we successfully Login to AWS Account

2) Create key-pair

For Crating Key-pair Write below command

> aws ec2 create-key-pair  โ€” key-name MYKEY โ€” query keyinfo  โ€” output text > MYKEY.pem

To see all the Key-Pairs exist in that particular region using CLI we use command

3) Create security Group

>aws ec2 create-security-group โ€” group-name MyCLiSecurityGroup โ€” description โ€œMy security groupโ€ 

So to Set Inbound or Ingress Rule to a security group so that we can authorize the outside traffic we can use the command

> aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress --group-id sg-0ac9d9eddb7112a21 --protocol all --port all --cidr 0.0.0.0/0

See in web consol

To see the above all Information about Security Group and see all the existing security group using CLI we use command

> aws ec2 describe-security-groups

4) Now, we have to launch an EC2 Instance using the Key-Pair and the Security Group that we have created in the above previous steps.

If we want to launch one more EC2 Instance using CLI we use command

> aws ec2 run-instances --image-id ami-081bb417559035fe8 --instance-type t2.micro --security-group-ids  sg-0ac9d9eddb7112a21 --key-name MYKEY

5) Now, after Launching EC2 Instance now we have to create one EBS Volume of 1 GB

> aws ec2 create-volume --availability-zone ap-south-1a --size 1

6)Now We have Ec2 Instance and One EBs for Attach EBs with instances

Then Go to Instance Cli :

  1. Partition
  2. format
  3. mount The EBs So EBs attach with Instances

For Run bellow Command

> fdisk /dev/sdf
> mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdf
> mount /dev/sdf /mydrive
> df -h

So Our EBs Connect with Instances

Thanks readers for reading!!!

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