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An Introduction to the AWS Command Line Tool

Amazon Web Services has an extremely functional and easy to use web console called the AWS Management Console. It’s brilliant for performing complex tasks on your AWS infrastructure, although as a Linux sysadmin, you may want something more “console” friendly.

In early September 2013, Amazon released version 1.0 of awscli, a powerful command line interface which can be used to manage AWS services.

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