AWS CLI Cheat Sheet
Todd Murchison edited this page Sep 18, 2015
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List buckets
aws s3 ls
Bucket location
aws s3api get-bucket-location --bucket <bucket-name>
Logging status
aws s3api get-bucket-logging --bucket <bucket-name>
Describe autoscale group details and member instances
aws autoscaling describe-auto-scaling-groups \ --auto-scaling-group-names <as-group-name>
Template validation
aws cloudformation validate-template \ --template-body file://myCFN.template.json aws cloudformation validate-template \ --template-url https://s3.amazonaws.com/cfn/myCFN.template.json
Listing stacks
aws cloudformation list-stacks \ --stack-status-filter [ CREATE_COMPLETE | UPDATE_COMPLETE | etc.. ]
Viewing stack events and resources
aws cloudformation describe-stack-events --stack-name <stack-name> aws cloudformation list-stack-resources --stack-name <stack-name>
Creating a subscription
aws cloudtrail create-subscription \ --name cloudtrail-logs-ue1 \ --s3-use-bucket cloudtrail-logs \ --s3-prefix stage \ --sns-new-topic cloudtrail-stage-notify-ue1
Describing and retrieving status
aws cloudtrail describe-trails aws cloudtrail get-trail-status --name cloudtrail-logs-ue1
Describing
aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids <instance-id>
Starting, stopping, rebooting and killing an instance
aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids <instance-id> aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids <instance-id> aws ec2 reboot-instances --instance-ids <instance-id> aws ec2 terminate-instances --instance-ids <instance-id>
Viewing console output
aws ec2 get-console-output --instance-id <instance-id>
Listing images
aws ec2 describe-images --image-ids <ami-id>
Creating an AMI
aws ec2 create-image \ --instance-id <instance-id> \ --name myAMI \ --description 'Test AMI'
Viewing a security group
aws ec2 describe-security-groups --group-names <group-name>
Checking the enhanced networking attribute
aws ec2 describe-instance-attribute \ --instance-id <instance-id> \ --attribute sriovNetSupport
Describing
aws ec2 describe-vpcs aws ec2 describe-subnets --filters Name=vpc-id,Values=<vpc-id> aws ec2 describe-route-tables --filters Name=vpc-id,Values=<vpc-id> aws ec2 describe-network-acls --filters Name=vpc-id,Values=<vpc-id> aws ec2 describe-vpc-peering-connections
Describing
aws elb describe-load-balancers --load-balancer-names <lb-name> aws elb describe-load-balancer-attributes --load-balancer-name <lb-name> aws elb describe-load-balancer-policies \ --policy-names [ <policy-name> | ELBSecurityPolicy-2014-10 ]
Registering and removing instances
aws elb register-instances-with-load-balancer --load-balancer-name <lb-name> --instances <instance-id> aws elb deregister-instances-from-load-balancer --load-balancer-name <lb-name> --instances <instance-id>
Viewing the health of your ELB instances
aws elb describe-instance-health --load-balancer-name <lb-name>
Uploading a server certificate
aws iam upload-server-certificate --server-certificate-name my.cert.com --certificate-body file://my.cert.com.crt --private-key file://my.cert.com.key --certificate-chain file://Verisign_Chain_CA.crt
Listing your certificates
aws iam list-server-certificates
(JMESPath query language for JSON)
Describe all instances in a region, or in a specific VPC
aws ec2 describe-instances \
--query 'Reservations[*].Instances[*].{Id:InstanceId,Pub:PublicIpAddress,Pri:PrivateIpAddress,State:State.Name}' \
--output table
aws ec2 describe-instances \
--filters Name=vpc-id,Values=<vpc-id> \
--query 'Reservations[*].Instances[*].{Id:InstanceId,Pub:PublicIpAddress,Pri:PrivateIpAddress,State:State.Name}' \
--output table
Output:
-------------------------------------------------------------- | DescribeInstances | +------------+-----------------+------------------+----------+ | Id | Pri | Pub | State | +------------+-----------------+------------------+----------+ | i-e44ac30e| 10.79.129.62 | 54.172.232.200 | running | | i-68dd7282| 10.79.133.95 | 54.172.204.142 | running | | i-60e5f38d| 10.79.130.54 | 54.172.145.250 | running | ...