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Configure AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)

Configure AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)

From the course: Java: Serverless Applications on AWS

Configure AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)

- There are multiple ways to interact with AWS. So far you have used the web interface. Let's explore other ways to interact with AWS and also take a closer look on how to set up AWS CLI as it will be required for our development set up. AWS provides services such as S3 for storage, dynamoDB, cloud nine for development or Lambda for servers applications. To get access to this services, we need to make HTTP requests to API endpoints. But, how do we know which APIs to call? We can browse the AWS documentation Click on a service such as dynamoDB, click on actions, expand the list and see the signature of an API and if you look at the create table, you can see an example request. For this particular one, we also need to provide authorization hiders, remember the access key and the secret from the previous video. Creating such a request manually seems tedious, as there is a lot of room for error. The easier way is using the…

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