AWS CLI cheatsheet

EC2

aws ec2 describe-instances
aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids i-12345678c

S3

aws s3 ls s3://mybucket
aws s3 rm s3://mybucket/folder --recursive
aws s3 cp myfolder s3://mybucket/folder --recursive
aws s3 sync myfolder s3://mybucket/folder --exclude *.tmp

ECS

aws ecs create-cluster
  --cluster-name=NAME
  --generate-cli-skeleton

aws ecs create-service

Homebrew

brew install awscli
aws configure

Elastic Beanstalk

Configuration

• .elasticbeanstalk/config.yml - application config
• .elasticbeanstalk/dev-env.env.yml - environment config

eb config

See: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/command-options.html

ebextensions

• http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/customize-containers.html
• http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/customize-containers-ec2.html

Also see

• AWS CLI
• Documentation
• All commands