{"id":27706,"date":"2017-06-20T14:51:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T12:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=27706"},"modified":"2017-06-20T14:51:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T12:51:31","slug":"5-fancy-reasons-and-7-funky-uses-for-the-aws-cli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/06\/20\/5-fancy-reasons-and-7-funky-uses-for-the-aws-cli\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Fancy Reasons and 7 Funky Uses for the AWS CLI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

5 Fancy Reasons and 7 Funky Uses for the AWS CLI<\/a>\u00a0has a few good examples of AWS CLI usage:<\/p>\n

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  1. AWS CLI Multiple Profiles<\/li>\n
  2. AWS CLI Autocomplete<\/li>\n
  3. Formatting AWS CLI Output<\/li>\n
  4. Filtering AWS CLI Output<\/li>\n
  5. Using Waiters in the AWS CLI<\/li>\n
  6. Using Input Files to Commands<\/li>\n
  7. Using Roles to Access Resources<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There also a few useful links in the article, so make sure you at least scroll through it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

    5 Fancy Reasons and 7 Funky Uses for the AWS CLI\u00a0has a few good examples of AWS CLI usage: AWS CLI Multiple Profiles AWS CLI Autocomplete Formatting AWS CLI Output Filtering AWS CLI Output Using Waiters in the AWS CLI Using Input Files to Commands Using Roles to Access Resources There also a few useful … Continue reading 5 Fancy Reasons and 7 Funky Uses for the AWS CLI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"5 Fancy Reasons and 7 Funky Uses for the AWS CLI #Amazon #AWS #CLI #cloud #hosting","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,133,62,1334],"tags":[3270,2366,1960,2289],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-27706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-sysadmin","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-amazon-aws","tag-cloud-computing","tag-command-line","tag-web-hosting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28969,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/12\/using-aws-cli-query-option-to-simplify-output\/","url_meta":{"origin":27706,"position":0},"title":"Using aws-cli –query Option To Simplify Output","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Eric Hammond shares a super-handy tip for those of us who work with Amazon AWS via the command line: I just learned about a recent addition to aws-cli: The\u00a0--query\u00a0option lets you specify what parts of the response data structure you want output. 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