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How to configure AWS CLI with named profiles
Author: Venkata Sudhakar
The below example shows how to configure AWS CLI with your User account Access key ID and Secret Access Key. As a first step create a User account in Identity and Access Management (IAM) and associate required Permissions. Next go to 'Security Credentials' tab and generate credentials to be used with AWS CLI.
To switch between different environments AWS allows us to use named profiles which can be configured using --profile profile_name option.
1 | C:\>aws configure --profile bethecoder |
2 | AWS Access Key ID [None]: AKIAQUGMR2BETHECODER |
3 | AWS Secret Access Key [None]: 2Iyq867AadPmoGfexqaWVbethecoder |
4 | Default region name [None]: us-east-1 |
5 | Default output format [None]: json |
AWS CLI stores above configuration in two default configuration files ~/.aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config as shown below,
~/.aws/credentials
2 | aws_access_key_id = AKIAQUGMR2BETHECODER |
3 | aws_secret_access_key = 2Iyq867AadPmoGfexqaWVbethecoder |
~/.aws/config
Now you can use --profile option in all AWS CLI commands.
1 | aws ec2 describe-instances --profile bethecoder |
2 | aws s3 ls --profile bethecoder |
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