I found using gimme-aws-creds is easier to use that okta-awscli. I believe it was written by the Nike folks, To get you started here is the github link: https://github.com/Nike-Inc/gimme-aws-creds Of course your organization should be using Okta’s identity service otherwise this does not apply
Note I used AWS CLI V2 for this – not certain if it works with V1 but it is easy enough to upgrade to V2 which has been out for some-time. I’ll start off by saying, this is a very common requirement in my humble opinion and AWS as usual does a poor job of …
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AWS CLI Basics: Assuming you have aws cli setup – if you are using an ec2 amazon AMI the AWS CLI is preinstalled for you – verify version of CLI with: aws –version # show the regions available – will work if you have ec2 privs… aws ec2 describe-regions –output text | cut -f 3 …
When creating an S3 bucket with the AWS CLI s3api like: aws s3api create-bucket –bucket xxxxxredshiftoregon –region us-west-2 –create-bucket-configuration LocationConstraint=us-west-2 If you leave this “–create-bucket-configuration LocationConstraint=us-west-2” clause out you get an error like: An error occurred (IllegalLocationConstraintException) when calling the CreateBu cket operation: The unspecified location constraint is incompatible for the regi on specific endpoint …
so basically from a high level it is a two step process: 1.) install aws cli 2.) setup credentials and config file under “.aws” direct – slightly different default locations depending OS Both Windows and Linux AWS CLI depend on python and pip as prerequisites https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/awscli-install-windows.html or the more generic docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/installing.html After creating a …
Example aws cli command to write an item to DynamoDB table that exists – put-item https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-dynamodb.html shorthand cli commands – shortens json https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/shorthand-syntax.html My sample put-item to Contacts table aws dynamodb put-item \ –table-name Contacts \ –item ‘{ “ContactName”: {“S”: “JBird”}, “ContactSeq”: {“N”: 63} , “AlbumTitle”: {“S”: “Somewhat Famous”} }’ \ –return-consumed-capacity TOTAL { “ConsumedCapacity”: …
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