AWS CLI – Command Line Interface

AWS CLI is a tool using you can do everything more quickly and efficiently that you can do from the browser-based console. Using AWS CLI you can make calls to the AWS API from your terminal. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows and is written in Python. It provides a unified interface for all AWS services. Unless otherwise specified, the output is by default in JSON format.

The AWS Command Line Interface or CLI is a command-line shell program that allows you to manage your AWS services from your shell terminal. Once installed and set up with proper permissions, you can write commands to manage AWS services. The idea here is to offer a simpler programmatic interface to the set of functions that do the heavy lifting of interacting with the AWS API. In this chapter we are the providing the you the steps to install AWS CIL to windows system.