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AWS CLI in alpine
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The AWS CLI is a command line interface for interacting with AWS services. To install it in an Alpine-based container we can use pip instead of going thru all the trouble of downloading a zip and install it by running some script.
09/02/2023
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Indentify whether we are running an spot instance using AWS CLI
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On a running instance we might want to be able to identify whether it is a spot or on demand instance. We can use awscli to identify it
23/05/2022
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How to use aws s3 sync command
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Similarly on how we use the rsync command to copy content across the filesystem and even across servers, we can use aws s3 sync to not only sync files between the computer we are running it and an S3 bucket but also between S3 buckets
03/05/2022
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AWS CLI: Decode authorization message
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When a user is not authorized to perform a certain operation on the AWS API, a HTTP 403 is returned (Client.UnauthorizedOperation) and may include encoded message that provides additional details about this authorization failure. This encoded message can be decoded using aws cli
08/12/2021
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AWS CLI configuration for assuming a different role
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On a previous post we saw how to test we can assume a role using AWS CLI but how can we configure AWS CLI to assume an specific role before performing some request? We can do it using a profile to save us from the trouble of having to change three different environment variables.
06/04/2021
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