A.3. Setting up the AWS CLI
Although the AWS web interface is easy to use, where possible in this book we will work with AWS resources using the official AWS command-line interface (CLI) application. The AWS CLI isn’t much to look at, but its command syntax is quite intuitive, and it tends to get new AWS features before the web interface. The team behind the AWS CLI is also relatively good at maintaining backward compatibility, so hopefully these instructions will continue to work for the foreseeable future!
First, you need to get hold of the CLI application. If you are running this book’s development environment in Vagrant, you are in luck—the AWS CLI is preinstalled. Check that it’s available and working by navigating to your local copy of ...
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