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Implementing Identity Management on AWS
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Implementing Identity Management on AWS

by Jon Lehtinen
October 2021
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
10h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 2: An Introduction to the AWS CLI

The AWS CLI is the programmatic interface for administrating resources within an AWS account. You can use the AWS CLI to access any number of AWS accounts, operate under any number of IAM user objects under each of those accounts, and execute complex commands to perform all manner of functions on all of your AWS objects. Accessing an AWS account through the AWS CLI requires an IAM user object with programmatic access to its AWS account, which is a type of credential distinct from the user object's Management Console password. With this access, you will be able to do everything via the CLI that you can do in the Management Console.

In this chapter, you will learn all about the AWS CLI. This includes the ...

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