All You Need To Know About AWS CLI

What is AWS CLI?

AWS is the leading service provider of the cloud industry and organizations are continuously investing in growing their infrastructure and operations. AWS offers computing power, database storage and content delivery apart from infrastructure services for its clients. Of the several ways available to access, operate and manage AWS services including AWS management console or through the APIs,  AWS CLI is a significant one. It is a tool that actually draws all the services offered under the AWS banner under a central system of console thus giving the opportunity to the user to gain easy access and control to manage the multiple sources. You can exert control by either manual means or automate the process using scripts from a terminal session on your client.

Advantages of using AWS CLI

The following are a few reasons that justify the compelling value delivered by AWS CLI.

Ease of Installation - Toolkits introduced before AWS CLI like the AWS API demanded complex procedures and prerequisites. Whereas the installation of AWS Command Line Interface involves a simple, standardized procedure and doesn't require the user to set multiple variables in the environment.

Reduces time consumption - Though AWS Management Console is said to be user-friendly, it is complicated to operate at times. Say for instance, if you are looking for a large Amazon S3, it requires that you log into your account, find the bucket and the correct folder and then search for the right file. But with AWS CLI you can get the list by merely typing the right command which will only take seconds.

Automate the cloud infrastructure - With scripts, the user can actually automate the entire operations of the cloud infrastructure. You can do this entirely or partially using easy-yet-powerful scripts.

Supports all offerings of AWS - Before the launch of AWS CLI, users need a CLI tool dedicated to access EC2. Despite the fact that this worked perfectly well, it doesn’t let users take control of other Amazon Web Services. With AWS CLI, you can gain control over all the services and every  AWS IaaS resource.

AWS CLI Versions

Version 1

This was the first release and still receives support from AWS. This is available for backward compatibility. The new, updated features introduced in AWS CLI version 2 cannot be ported back to version 1.

Version 2

This is the latest released version and can be installed only as a bundled installer. This is aimed at improving the use of production environments. With breakthrough revisions and changes from version 1 and may demand a change in the script to continue seamless operation.

Installation prerequisites

AWS CLI 2 is capable of operating only in 64-bit versions of windows.

AWS CLI 2 is supported on Windows XP or later versions.

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