What is it ?
The AWS Tools for PowerShell are a set of PowerShell modules that are built on the functionality exposed by the AWS SDK for .NET. The AWS Tools for PowerShell enable you to script operations on your AWS resources from the PowerShell command line.
You can install the AWS Tools for PowerShell on computers running Windows, Linux, or macOS operating systems. Here we will install on a windows 10 machine.
Prerequisites
1. Sign up for an AWS account. To know how, go through below link
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/create-and-activate-aws-account/
2. Create an IAM user.
After you sign up for your account, you must create users in the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service. Each user has its own credentials and permissions. The credentials are used to authenticate the user making a request. The permissions determine which AWS resources and operations are authorized for that user.
If you need help please refer below
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/getting-started_create-admin-group.html
3. Create an access key for your IAM user.
The AWS Tools for PowerShell require that each cmdlet is sent using appropriate security credentials. To do this, you typically must create an access key for each user that needs to use the AWS Tools for PowerShell cmdlets.
An access key consists of an access key ID and secret access key. These are used to sign (encrypt for the purpose of authentication) programmatic requests that you make to AWS services
How to Install AWSPowershell ?
If you’re running a version of PowerShell
earlier than 5.0, you can run the Tools for Windows PowerShell installer .msi. To download the
installer, navigate to http://aws.amazon.com/powershell/, and then choose AWS
Tools for Windows Installer.
Note: You can run the installer .msi if you’re running Windows PowerShell 5.0 or later. But we recommend that you use the Install-Module cmdlet instead so that you have easier support for updating or removing the module.
In my case I have PowerShell version 5.1, hence I chose to install the module via command prompt from the PowerShell gallery
Run below command to install the module
Install-Module -Name AWSPowerShell
You will see below screen, type Y to proceed
Installation started and it will be complete automatically w/o any further intervention.
After the installation, you can verify the module installation using below command
To import the module, use below command
To see the list commands the module has, use below command
To check the AWS PowerShell version details, use the following command
To see a list of the AWS services that are supported in the current version of the tools, use the following command
Now let’s configure credentials for PowerShell to use inside the shell.
After you create the access key ID and secret access key for user using the IAM, download/copy to your local machine.
Now open the PowerShell and import the AWSPowerShell module.
Now we will store the keys and give it a name, let’s say as “awscred”
Set-AWSCredentials -AccessKey 123MYACCESSKEY -SecretKey 456SECRETKEY -StoreAs awscred
Now let’s load the credential name before we run the cmdlets
Set-AWSCredentials -StoredCredentials awscred
That’s it! All configuration has been done. Now let’s run a few commands
Woohooo, its worked!
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