Category: AWS CLI

Hi everyone! This blog post is about the AWS CLI Topic Guide, a feature that was added in version 1.7.24 of the CLI. The AWS CLI Topic Guide allows users to discover and read information about a CLI feature or its behavior at a level of detail not found in-depth in the Help page of […]

If you have ever passed the contents of a file to a parameter of the AWS CLI, you most likely did so using the file:// notation. By setting a parameter’s value as the file’s path prepended by file://, you can explicitly pass in the contents of a local file as input to a command: aws […]

This year at re:Invent we had a great time meeting customers and discussing their usage of the AWS CLI. We hope everyone had a blast! I had the opportunity to present a talk titled “Advanced Usage of the AWS CLI.” In this talk, I discussed some advanced features of the AWS CLI, and how you […]

Have you ever run aws help on the command line or browsed the AWS CLI Reference Documentation and noticed that there are two sets of Amazon S3 commands to choose from: s3 and s3api? If you are completely unfamiliar with either the s3 or s3api commands, you can read about the two commands in the […]

Hi everyone! Welcome to the AWS Command Line Interface blog. I’m James Saryerwinnie, and I work on the AWS CLI. This blog will be the place to go for information about the AWS CLI including: Tips and tricks for using the AWS CLI New feature announcements Deep dives into various AWS CLI features Guest posts […]