Day 42 Task: IAM Programmatic access and AWS CLI

Day 42 Task: IAM Programmatic access and AWS CLI

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Today is more of a reading exercise and getting some programmatic access to your AWS account

๐Ÿ”ถ IAM Programmatic access

To access your AWS account from a terminal or system, you can use AWS Access keys and AWS Secret Access keys Watch this video for more details.

๐Ÿ”ถ 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.

๐Ÿ”ถ Task-01 : Create AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY from AWS Console.

First of all login to aws management console and go to the security credentials.

Now select the Create access key.

An access key was created to download the CSV file for security purposes.

๐Ÿ”ถ Task-02: Set up and install AWS CLI and configure your account credentials.

To install go to the below link for as per your respective system go on.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html
Install CLI:

Check and verify the AWS installation by using aws --version

Now Configure the Aws by giving access key and AWS Secret Key.

We have Completed set up and installed the AWS CLI and configured your account credentials.


Happy Learning :)

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