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Set up and use the AWS CLI for automation

Set up and use the AWS CLI for automation - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Set up and use the AWS CLI for automation

- [Instructor] Now, in this next section we're going to look at the process for getting the AWS Command Line interface or CLI. So, the first thing that you would need to do is you'd need to go to the documentation and read for your particular operating system, and I'm on a Mac here, how you would download what other prerequisites, so on and so forth. Tip from the real world, although, for the Mac version the instructions here say to use the PIP Package Installer. I've actually had better luck with Homebrew. So, if you just search on Homebrew and you use that process for installing Python and the other prerequisites, I've had better success with that. Just a tip. So, you download and set this up per these instructions and I've already done this on this computer. If you're using PIP, you run "pip install --upgrade --user awscli". Of course, the process is going to be different on Linux or Windows. And, then once you're done you want to do some verification. So, I'm going to switch over…

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