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AWS CLI Cheatsheet

Supercharge your daily acitivities related to AWS cloud using the combination of AWS CLI and JQ.

Prerequisites

• aws-cli
• jq

|:warning:| Disclaimer: All Resource, Account, ARN, Hostname etc are generated using Faker. They should not match any real user data.

|:arrow_right:| If you have multiple AWS Accounts, you can use bash aliases like the following. So you no longer need to pass --profile to aws tool repeatedly.

alias aws-prod="aws --profile work-prod"
alias aws-dev="aws --profile work-dev"
alias aws-self="aws --profile personal"
alias aws="aws --profile work-dev"

|:arrow_right:| To format aws command output into pretty tables, you can pipe the output to column -t.

# aws ec2 describe-instances | jq ...
i-0f112d652ecf13dac c3.x2large fisher.com
i-0b3b5128445a332db t2.nano robinson.com

# aws ec2 describe-instances | jq ... | column -t
i-0f112d652ecf13dac  c3.x2large  fisher.com
i-0b3b5128445a332db  t2.nano     robinson.com

.. toctree::
   :caption: AWS Services
   :maxdepth: 100
   :hidden:

   acm
   amplify
   apigw
   ce
   cloudfront
   cloudwatch
   cognito
   dynamodb
   ec2
   ecr
   efs
   eks
   elasticache
   elb
   iam
   lambda
   opensearch
   rds
   route53
   s3
   sns
   sqs
   wafv2