Category: AWS

AWS Amazon Web Services Blog Archives, by Peter Whyte (Database Administrator). Includes IAM, Redshift, RDS, EC2, Cloudformation & more.

  • How to Set Environment Variables in PowerShell

    To get environment variables in PowerShell, we can use Get-ChildItem env: to list all the environment variables and $env: to return the value of a specific environment variable. This blog post should help explain this as well as how to set new values for Environment Variables. An environment…

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  • How to Manage S3 Buckets with AWS CLI

    This is a post on how to help manage S3 Buckets with AWS CLI, and to help explain some local Operating System (OS) considerations when running such commands. First of all, you will need to be authenticated to your AWS Account and have AWS CLI installed. I cover…

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  • How to Install & Configure AWS CLI on Ubuntu

    This guide will walk you through the steps to install and configure AWS CLI version 1 on Ubuntu (20.04). Topics Covered: 1. Updating Local Packages2. Installing AWS CLI on Ubuntu3. Checking Installed AWS CLI Version4. Configuring AWS Profile5. Running AWS CLI Commands 1. Updating Local Packages To start,…

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  • How to Install and Configure AWS CLI on Windows

    This post is a how-to for installing & configuring AWS CLI (Version 2) on Windows. In this guide, we’re going to download the AWS Command Line Interface installation media and run through the simple installation. Once done we’ll configure AWS CLI, which you’ll need an AWS Account to…

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  • AWS CLI – List IAM Users

    AWS CLI – List IAM Users The aws iam list-users is a handy command for managing your AWS IAM users. It lets you get a list of all the users in your AWS account, along with some basic info about each one. You can use the –query option…

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