September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
14h 24m
English
This appendix includes instructions for installing and configuring the AWS CLI on Max OS X and Windows.
The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is a tool that lets you manage your AWS services using a command-line interface, over the internet. In this appendix you will learn to download, install, and configure the appropriate version of the AWS CLI on your computer.
If you are a Mac OS user, you can use a bundled installer to install the AWS CLI on your computer. The bundled installer requires Python2 version 2.6.5+ or Python3 version 3.3+ to be pre-installed on the computer.
To check the Python version on a Mac OS computer, open a Terminal window, type the following command, and ...