I am rather a command line person myself so in retrospect I was a bit surprised that I didn’t leap to the AWSCLI command line program.\u00a0 This tool lets you do from your shell what you might have had to do with various AWS screens.<\/p>\n
The AWS documentation makes it look pretty simple<\/a>.\u00a0 Just type the following command.<\/p>\n This actually does make the assumption that you already have python and pip installed on your machine.<\/p>\n I am not a python developer but it sounded like this would all be a downhill slide as pip actually already comes installed with python since 3.4.<\/p>\n I did have some false starts for a lot of reasons.\u00a0 The first is that if you are installing this on windows you should take the windows install package.\u00a0 It may have been an error but I tried the 64 bit embedded version which did not seem to have pip, nor did the 32 bit embedded version. I was a bit disappointed but i then tried a windows install that still didn’t quite work.<\/p>\n This was probably my fault as I assumed that this was some sort command to be interpreted by the python interpreter – nope. If you do that, you will end up watching youtube videos and reading webpages that basically lead you in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n Eventually I found the correct web page that pointed out that the pip command is essentially an external program that needs to be run, just as seen above.<\/p>\n However, I found this out after reverting to python 3.5.4 and making sure that both the installed directory as well as its Scripts sub-directory was in the path.\u00a0 Yup, that makes everything work a lot easier.\u00a0 But I am not really willing to install the more up to date 3.6.3 python – well at the moment.<\/p>\n Well, the aws command is exactly like the pip command, you simply run this from the command line and then everything works just fine, well, sorta.<\/p>\n You need to first do one little configuration and amazon again does step you through it<\/a>.\u00a0 Of course you do need to either setup a user in the IAM or use an existing user with the necessary privilages.<\/p>\n You will be asked four questions and most of these answers are already available from the IAM. What I thought would be the tricky question was what is my aws_access_key_id and the aws_secret_access_key.\u00a0 The other questions seem pretty tame, what format do you want you output and what region are you in.<\/p>\n I got the hard part right but somehow got my region wrong.\u00a0 My attempts to manually fix these two files (.aws\/credentialls and .aws\/config) only seemed to make things worse.\u00a0 My example command seemed simple enough.<\/p>\n I either ended up having some fairly odd problems with the explanation that my profile could not be found or the program would hang. In the end, I could not manuallly fix these files so I simply deleted the two configuration files and re-ran the configure with a minor change.<\/p>\n This worked a lot better and then my test program almost worked.\u00a0 I realized\u00a0that I was running my test using a different region (Frankfurt) versus what I should have been US East (Ohio).<\/p>\n I think that I was saved by that mistake.\u00a0 Once I changed my region I started to get a much more reasonable error.<\/p>\n Yes, I made a pretty bad guess at my region but it did help to yield this very badly formatted URL and google came to my assistance.\u00a0 I turned out that I was nowhere near correct with my region name<\/p>\n The amazon documentation has a hyperlink everywhere when you are reading about almost any topic.\u00a0 It is almost impossible to go through from start to end on a topic without visiting a dozen other document links.\u00a0 Guess how many links about regions they had on this page.\u00a0 Yup, none.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Anyway, Amazon also has a list of all of their regions<\/a> which was very helpful.\u00a0 I changed my region to one from this list and then my aws test command worked.<\/p>\n I never got a chance to get back to my studies of Aws Lambda, but I will get to that in the morning.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n https:\/\/www.python.org\/downloads\/release\/python-354\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am rather a command line person myself so in retrospect I was a bit surprised that I didn’t leap to the AWSCLI command line program.\u00a0 This tool lets you do from your shell what you might have had to … Continue reading pip install awscli --upgrade --user<\/pre>\n
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