Setting up AWS Command Line Interface

This section lists the commands that have to be executed to configure the Command Line Interface (CLI) for executing the AWS scripts.

Procedure:

1. Download AWS CLI.
2. From the installed location, configure AWS for general use by providing the details, such as Access Key ID, Secret Access Key, Region and Output Format.
   • $ aws configure
   • AWS Access Key ID [None]:               EXAMPLEKEYID
   • AWS Secret Access Key [None]:        EXAMPLEKEY
   • Default region name [one]:                 us-west-2
   • Default output format [None]:
3. The configuration details are stored in the config and credentials files in the USERS directory.
4. Download dynamo-db from https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/DynamoDBLocal.html.
5. To launch dynamo-db, run the following command from the installed location.

   java -Djava.library.path=./DynamoDBLocal_lib -jar DynamoDBLocal.jar -sharedDb

   After running the earlier command, you should be able to access dynamo-db from AWS CLI.

   • aws dynamodb list-tables
   • aws dynamodb scan --table-name example-table-name