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Hands-on lab: AWS CLI setup

Hands-on lab: AWS CLI setup

- [Instructor] In the IAM identity section, we learned that an IAM user can consist of a name, a password, and an access key pair. The name and password are what we use to log into the AWS Management Console. The access key pair, on the other hand, is used to interact with AWS using the AWS CLI in the AWS SDKs. The access key pair is made up of two parts: the access key ID, and a secret access key, and you treat them the same way as you treat your login credentials. You do not share them with other people. We'll be doing several demos in this course that will require us to utilize the AWS CLI. So make sure you have it installed and set up so you can follow along. In this video, I will show you how to download, install, and configure AWS CLI on your computer so you can begin interacting with AWS from your terminal. So first, I'm just going to Google AWS CLI and the first result should give us the correct webpage. Let's…

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