consistent control over more AWS services with aws-cli, a single, powerful command line tool from Amazon
Readers of this tech blog know that I am a fan of the power of the command line. I enjoy presenting functional command line examples that can be copied and pasted to experience services and features.
The Old World
Users of the various AWS legacy command line tools know that, though they get the job done, they are often inconsistent in where you get them, how you install them, how you pass options, how you provide credentials, and more. Plus, there are only tool sets for a limited number of AWS services.
I wrote an article that demonstrated the simplest approach I use to install and configure the legacy AWS command line tools, and it ended up being extraordinarily long.
I’ve been using the term “legacy” when referring to the various old AWS command line tools, which must mean that there is something to replace them, right?
The New World
The future of the AWS command line tools is aws-cli, a single, unified, consistent command line tool that works with almost all of the AWS services.