AWS CLI | Important & Useful Commands

The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) provides a wide range of commands for interacting with various AWS services and managing your AWS resources. Here's a list of some commonly used AWS CLI commands, grouped by their respective services or functions.

AWS CLI installation based on Operating System

AWS CLI Core Commands:

• aws configure: Set up your AWS CLI configuration, including access key, secret key, default region, and output format.
• aws help: Get help and information on AWS CLI commands and their usage.

Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud):

• aws ec2 describe-instances: List EC2 instances in your AWS account.
• aws ec2 run-instances: Launch a new EC2 instance.
• aws ec2 terminate-instances: Terminate one or more EC2 instances.

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service):

• aws s3 ls: List S3 buckets or objects.
• aws s3 cp: Copy files and directories to/from S3.
• aws s3 rm: Delete objects from S3.

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service):

• aws rds describe-db-instances: List RDS database instances.
• aws rds create-db-instance: Create a new RDS database instance.
• aws rds delete-db-instance: Delete an RDS database instance.

Amazon IAM (Identity and Access Management):

• aws iam create-user: Create a new IAM user.
• aws iam list-users: List IAM users.
• aws iam attach-user-policy: Attach a managed policy to an IAM user.

AWS Lambda:

• aws lambda create-function: Create a new Lambda function.
• aws lambda list-functions: List Lambda functions in your AWS account.
• aws lambda invoke: Invoke a Lambda function.

Amazon CloudWatch:

• aws cloudwatch put-metric-data: Publish custom metrics to CloudWatch.
• aws cloudwatch describe-alarms: List CloudWatch alarms.
• aws cloudwatch get-metric-statistics: Get statistics for CloudWatch metrics.

Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service):

• aws ecs create-cluster: Create a new ECS cluster.
• aws ecs list-container-instances: List container instances in an ECS cluster.
• aws ecs run-task: Run a new task on an ECS cluster.

Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service):

• aws sqs create-queue: Create a new SQS queue.
• aws sqs list-queues: List SQS queues in your AWS account.
• aws sqs send-message: Send a message to an SQS queue.

Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service):

• aws sns create-topic: Create a new SNS topic.
• aws sns list-topics: List SNS topics.
• aws sns publish: Publish a message to an SNS topic.

Amazon DynamoDB:

• aws dynamodb create-table: Create a new DynamoDB table.
• aws dynamodb list-tables: List DynamoDB tables.
• aws dynamodb put-item: Put an item into a DynamoDB table.

Note: To get specific information about a particular command, you can use the 'aws help' command followed by the command you want to learn more about. For example:

aws help ec2 describe-instances

Certainly! Here are more AWS CLI commands for various AWS services:

Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud):

• aws ec2 create-vpc: Create a new Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
• aws ec2 describe-vpcs: List VPCs in your AWS account.
• aws ec2 create-subnet: Create a new subnet within a VPC.

Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service):

• aws sns list-subscriptions: List subscriptions to an SNS topic.
• aws sns create-subscription: Subscribe an endpoint (e.g., an email address or an SQS queue) to an SNS topic.

AWS CloudFormation:

• aws cloudformation create-stack: Create a new CloudFormation stack.
• aws cloudformation list-stacks: List CloudFormation stacks in your AWS account.
• aws cloudformation describe-stack-events: Describe events for a specific CloudFormation stack.

AWS CloudFront (Content Delivery Network):

• aws cloudfront create-distribution: Create a new CloudFront distribution.
• aws cloudfront list-distributions: List CloudFront distributions.
• aws cloudfront create-invalidation: Create an invalidation for a CloudFront distribution.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk:

• aws elasticbeanstalk create-application: Create a new Elastic Beanstalk application.
• aws elasticbeanstalk create-environment: Create a new Elastic Beanstalk environment.
• aws elasticbeanstalk describe-environments: Describe Elastic Beanstalk environments.

AWS Glue (Data ETL Service):

• aws glue create-database: Create a new AWS Glue database.
• aws glue create-crawler: Create an AWS Glue crawler to discover and catalog data.
• aws glue start-job-run: Start an AWS Glue job run.

AWS Redshift (Data Warehouse):

• aws redshift create-cluster: Create a new Amazon Redshift cluster.
• aws redshift describe-clusters: Describe Amazon Redshift clusters.
• aws redshift modify-cluster: Modify the properties of an Amazon Redshift cluster.

AWS Kinesis (Real-time Data Streaming):

• aws kinesis create-stream: Create a new Kinesis data stream.
• aws kinesis list-streams: List Kinesis data streams.
• aws kinesis put-record: Put a single data record into a Kinesis data stream.

AWS Step Functions (Serverless Orchestration):

• aws stepfunctions create-state-machine: Create a new Step Functions state machine.
• aws stepfunctions list-state-machines: List Step Functions state machines.
• aws stepfunctions start-execution: Start the execution of a Step Functions state machine.

AWS Secrets Manager:

• aws secretsmanager create-secret: Create a new secret in AWS Secrets Manager.
• aws secretsmanager list-secrets: List secrets stored in AWS Secrets Manager.
• aws secretsmanager get-secret-value: Retrieve the value of a secret.

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