awscli

Tips for aws client

Initial setup

$ sudo apt-get -y install python-pip
$ sudo pip install awscli
$ aws configure
provide your data
$ aws --version

Enable ssh to EC2 instance

To access the instance via ssh, you need SSH key pair set up in EC2. Create a key pair via the CLI, copy the returned private key into a file in your ~/.ssh/ dir and set permissions. .23.

$ aws ec2 create-key-pair --key-name aws
$ vi ~/.ssh/id_rsa_aws
$ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa_aws
$ aws ec2 describe-key-pair

Running instance

t1.micro instance type is available via Amazon Linux AMI. This image also allow to connect via ssh.

$ aws ec2 run-instances --image-id ami-7b3db00c \
                        --count 1 \
                        --instance-type t1.micro \
                        --key-name awstest

SSH to instance

$ aws ec2 describe-instances
$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa_aws ec2-user@50.4.12.10

Terminate instance

$ aws ec2 terminate-instances --instance-ids <ids>

creatomg ecs cluster

aws ecs list-clusters
aws ecs create-cluster
aws ecs describe-clusters
aws ecs list-container-instances
aws ecs delete-cluster