AWS Cheat Sheet

Installation Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Command Description
See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html
aws iam list-users List users
For autocompletion see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-completion.html.
aws iam list-groups List groups
aws iam list-roles List roles
Global flags
aws iam list-policies List policies
Flag Description
aws iam create-user --user-name <name> Create a user
--profile <name> Run a command using the specified profile
aws iam create-group --group-name
--output <style> Format output as (json/text/table/yaml) Create a group
<name>
--help Show help
aws iam create-role --role-name <name>
Create a role
--endpoint-url <url> Override default API endpoint --assume-role-policy-document <policy>

--region Override default region aws iam create-policy --policy-name

Create a policy
<name> --policy-document <policy>
--version Show version of AWS CLI

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Configuration
Command Description
Command Description
aws ec2 describe-instances List instances
aws configure Configure AWS
aws ec2 run-instances --image-id <id>
aws configure sso Configure AWS IAM Identity Center credentials Create an instance
--instance-type <type>
aws configure list Show current configuration data aws ec2 terminate-instances
Terminate an instance
--instance-ids <id>
aws configure set <key> <value> Set a configuration value
aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids
aws configure get <key> Show a configuration value Start an instance
<id>
aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids
Profiles <id>
Stop an instance

Command Description
aws configure --profile <name> Create a new profile Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
aws configure list-profiles Show available profiles Command Description
aws eks list-clusters List clusters
Account information aws eks describe-cluster --name <name> Describe a cluster
Command Description aws eks create-cluster --name <name> Create a cluster
aws sts get-caller-identity Retrieve account information aws eks delete-cluster --name <name> Delete a cluster

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 Relational Database Service (RDS)
Command Description
aws rds describe-db-clusters List clusters
aws rds describe-db-instances List instances
aws rds create-db-cluster-snapshot Create a snapshot of a cluster

Simple Storage Service (S3)

Command Description
aws s3 ls List buckets
aws s3 ls s3://<bucket> List objects in a bucket
aws s3 mb s3://<bucket> Create a bucket
aws s3 rb s3://<bucket> Delete a bucket
aws s3 cp <src> <dest> Copy a file from/to S3
aws s3 rm s3://<bucket>/<object> Delete an object
aws s3 sync s3://bucket <dir> Sync a bucket to a local directory
aws s3 sync <dir> s3://bucket Sync a local directory to an S3 bucket

Other commands
Command Description
aws --version Show version
aws help Show help including all available commands
aws <command> help Show help for a specific command

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