Configure AWS CLI — Windows

Set Up the AWS Command Line

1 — Download the AWS CLI MSI installer

2 — Run the installer

3 — Open command line and type: aws --version

4 — Add a named profile

• Open CLI and type: aws configure
• For the AWS Access Key ID
• Go to AWS Console and then My Security Credentials

My Security Credentials

• Go to Access keys (access key ID and secret access key) and then Create New Access Key

• Go back to CLI
• Set AWS Access Key ID
• Set AWS Secret Access Key
• Set a Default region name: I will set Irland (eu-west-1)
• Default output format: json

That’s it, you have configured your default CLI profile. If you do not specify a profile this will be used by default

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