Installing AWS Command Line Tools Using Ubuntu Packages

See also: Installing AWS Command Line Tools from Amazon Downloads

Here are the steps for installing the AWS command line tools that are currently available as Ubuntu packages. These include:

  • EC2 API tools
  • EC2 AMI tools
  • IAM - Identity and Access Management
  • RDS - Relational Database Service
  • CloudWatch
  • Auto Scaling
  • ElastiCache

Starting with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise, these are also available:

  • CloudFormation
  • ELB - Elastic Load Balancer

Install Packages