IAM - Identity and Acess Management

Create User for AWS-CLI

IAM -> Access management/users -> create users -> attach policies directly

Chose: AdministratorAccess & create user

IAM -> Users -> your user

Security Credentials -> Access keys -> Create access key -> chose: Command Line Interface (CLI) -> next & create -> chose: Download .csv file (Access keys)

Install CLI

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html

Open your terminal

aws configure

output example:

AWS Access Key ID [None]: FISHBFAUIGFOW8
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: fw98u282342b
Default region name [None]: us-east-1
Default output format [None]: json

to verify that you have configured aws configure correctly do:

aws sts get-caller-identity

AWS-CLI Configuration

cat ~/.aws/credentials
cat ~/.aws/config