Configuring the AWS CLI

To do this, you will need to extract the AWS access key ID and secret access key from the file downloaded in step 4 of the Creating a new user in IAM section:

$ more credentials.csv
User Name,Access Key Id,Secret Access Key "yogeshraheja", AKIAII55DTLEV3X4ETAQ, mL2dEC8/ryuZ7fu6UI6kOm7PTlfROCZpai07Gy6T 

We will run the following command to configure our AWS account:

$ aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: AKIAII55DTLEV3X4ETAQ
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: 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
Default region name [None]: us-east-1
Default output format [None]: 

At this point, we are ready to start using the CLI. We can quickly verify that everything is working by listing the user accounts, as follows:

$ aws iam list-users
{
    "Users": [
        {
            "UserName": "yogeshraheja",
            "PasswordLastUsed": "2018-08-07T09:57:53Z",
            "CreateDate": "2018-08-07T04:56:03Z",
            "UserId": "AIDAIN22VCQLK43UVWLMK",
            "Path": "/",
            "Arn": "arn:aws:iam::094507990803:user/yogeshraheja"
        }
    ]
}