AWS notes

Configure a profile

Set the AWS_PROFILE environment variable or use the --profile flag.

# aws --profile=example configure
export AWS_PROFILE=example
aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [****************ABCD]: 
AWS Secret Access Key [****************efgh]: 
Default region name [us-west-2]: 
Default output format [json]: 

Get account ID

Get cost and usage for AWS

GovCloud does not have Cost Explorer so this will only work with commercial accounts.

Get cost and usage for the past month:

aws ce get-cost-and-usage --time-period Start="$(date -u -v-1m)",End="$(date -u)"

S3

Basic Usage

List buckets.

aws s3 ls
# aws s3api list-buckets

List contents of a bucket. To list the contents of a directory, you must append the trailing slash.

aws s3 ls my_bukkit
# aws s3 ls my_bukkit/shells/