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Configuring the Amazon CLI

Configuring the Amazon CLI

- [Instructor] One of the features of the CLI is that it will authenticate automatically for you once you configure it. We're going to go through a quick tutorial on how to do just that. Now the first step that you will need is to get your programmatic access keys. You may remember that we created some for our test user. But we will need to get credentials for our user so that we can configure the access. Keep in mind that you can always override these when you execute the command. Now in the AWS Console, go to the name at the top right. And select Security Credentials. From within here, select Access Keys. Now you may have some listed, and if you have 'em, great. Otherwise, click Create New Access Key. Now here you've got some options. You definitely would want to download your key file. It's always good to keep those saved somewhere. For right now, I'm just going to click the Show Access Key. And you'll see that we have…

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