When logging in as an IAM user, the account number or alis is required. Additionally, a registered MFA account on “Google Authenticator” may be required if MFA authentication is enabled.
If logging in as a root account, there is no need for the account number or alias, only the email address, MFA OTP is required.
Some services are specific to a region and will only appear if the correct region is selected, EC2 for example.
Some services are global and wll be avaible whatever region is selected.
Of course, resources are account specific and will be only visible to authorized accounts.
Launch, Manage and Monitor instances
Manage storage buckets, create storage policies, migration to cheaper, long term storage (Glacier)
Manage users, credentials, access policies.
Monitor running costs, payment methods. Avail of savings plans.
| S3 | list bucket contents | aws s3 ls s3://<bucket name>/<directory name> |
| upload file to a bucket | aws s3 cp <local file> s3://<bucket name>/<directory name>/<file name> | |
| uploading directories | aws s3 sync <local directory> s3://<bucket name>/<directory name> |
There are other useful commands for aws, e.g. starting and stopping instances. Note that you have to install credentials that
you will be using by either running aws configure to have defaults or saving them in a credentials.conf file and running
. crentials.conf
before running aws commands.