Mobile DevOps

EC2 CLI

AWS CLI contains multiple modules to manage AWS resources. EC2 CLI is a very straightforward way of creating and managing instances.

Install AWS CLI (commands):  $ curl -O https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py                   // Download pip $ python get-pip.py --user                                                         // Install pip for the user $pip install awscli --upgrade --user                                     // Install AWS CLI (remove --user if you want to install for all users)

Format:

$ aws ec2 run-instances <Pass parameters>

Example:

$ aws ec2 run-instances --count 1 --security-groups launch-wizard-1 --subnet-id subnet-1234rt78 --instance-type t2.micro --key-name myTestKey --image-id ami-abc123dec --associate-public-ip-address ...