Create "aws ping" command

[faermanj]

Describe the feature

Create "aws ping" command as an alias to "aws sts get-caller-identity", that's too long to use all the time.

Use Case

Every time before creating aws resources using the CLI

Proposed Solution

Create a simple alias to the same invocation

Other Information

No response

Acknowledgements

• I may be able to implement this feature request
• This feature might incur a breaking change

CLI version used

latest

Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)

all

[RyanFitzSimmonsAK]

Hi @faermanj, thanks for reaching out. The AWS CLI supports creating your own aliases, which should let you do this.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-usage-alias.html

This documentation includes an example for this exact operation.

The following example creates an alias named aws whoami using the aws sts get-caller-identity command. Since this alias calls an existing AWS CLI command, you can write the command without the aws prefix.

Please let me know if you have any follow-up questions. Thanks!

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