Aws-cli Alternatives

Reviews and mentions

• How to use AWS SSM Session Manager Plugin
  3 projects | dev.to | 13 Jan 2022

  It turned out that this plugin is actually an open source project on GitHub, and this tool is used to power the start-session AWS CLI command to establish shell session. The exact way to use it undocumentated, but one can check AWS CLI's source code to see and example on how to use it.

• Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of apps
  4 projects | reddit.com/r/webdev | 9 Jan 2022

  What makes GitHub's actions shitty? Marak's colors had 22 million downloads, including aws-cli. Blanking out a large repository like that, without so much as a warning, is irresponsible and choosing to partake in conspiracy theories is even more so.

• I built a cli to easily assume IAM roles and open the AWS console for them in your browser
  3 projects | reddit.com/r/aws | 28 Dec 2021

  #6365 Add Federated Signin URL Generator

• How to remove a configuration profile using aws cli ? (Not manually editing credential and config file)
  1 project | reddit.com/r/aws | 7 Dec 2021

  Currently not possible, there's a open issue that you can track: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/3346 (with a few vague suggestions which I would not recommend).

• Common Infrastructure Errors I've Made
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Dec 2021

  Interesting example given you can no longer do that with the latest (v2) version of the AWS CLI, since it isn't published to PyPI due to how big of a nightmare AWS found supporting that to be.

  There is a very nice comment talking through some of the reasoning here that is worth a read: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/4947#issuecomment-5860...

  I am quite annoyed v2 isn't in PyPI as it makes updating to v2 a sizable project in some cases, but also quite understand their reasoning.

  Granted the tradeoffs may be weigh out differently for an internal tool as the post describes, or if distributing the tool to a more constrained audience.

• Ask HN: What unexpected behaviors persist in software you use?
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Dec 2021

  I just got bitten by a problem in AWS CLI where S3 files won't sync when you expect them to: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/3273

  This got me thinking. What are the major unexpected behaviors, or "gotchas", exist in the software you use?

  Where do you see the "Principle of Least Astonishment" violated? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment

  I think we may all benefit from sharing with each other. Hopefully it'll save some of us from being bitten by odd software behavior.

  I'm referring to tools, programming languages, database and server software, etc. I think it would be really useful to raise awareness of these issues.

• Hosting your blog on AWS
  6 projects | dev.to | 16 Nov 2021

  To upload the website in the public directory to S3, the easy way is to go with the AWS CLI. After installing and configuring the CLI, use following command to upload the website to S3. To get the name of your S3 bucket, head over to the S3 console. You'll see that a new bucket was created by CloudFormation.

• AWS SIGv4 and SIGv4A – How AWS Signs and Verifies API Requests
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2021

  > I was very surprised to see that awscli still doesn't support Yubikeys

  Thanks, but you cannot[0] use hardware keys on the terminal.

  [0] https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/3607

• Can someone eli5 why I should or should not switch to awscli-v2?
  4 projects | reddit.com/r/aws | 17 Sep 2021

  I don't know, but AWS is very certain to point out that it was a conscious decision to do so here: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/4947

  4 projects | reddit.com/r/aws | 17 Sep 2021
• Improving the AWS console - what are your pain points?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/aws | 2 Sep 2021

  GitHub Issue - Login into AWS console from cli

• AWS package?
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/NixOS | 31 Aug 2021

  Perhaps you are looking for the official AWS CLI, available in nixpkgs as awscli and awscli2?

• “We do not plan to publish the AWS CLI project to PyPI at this time”
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jul 2021

  Starting in April, we’re going to begin posting monthly roadmap updates as issues on our GitHub repository. These will lay out what we’re actively working on and what’s on the horizon. Our backlog includes a mix of priorities, some driven by the CLI team and the community, some which align with larger AWS goals. Our focus will be on sharing the priorities emerging from our team, which will include Github issues we are planning to work on. We will iterate on the exact format and approach for these updates as we determine what works best, but they will be at least monthly for the rest of 2021.

  The writing style here just oozes AWS manager. This was probably ripped straight out of a business report. Its not surprising that this manager has posted only 1 update in May. https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/6186 . The update ends witg basically we fight fires first and dev second, there are always more fires, and we are hiring. Not so much of a status update as a plea for help.

  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jul 2021

  Should also be able to do

    pipx install https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/archive/refs/tags/2.2.24.zip

• Explaining boto3: How to use any AWS service with Python
  3 projects | dev.to | 19 Jul 2021

  Both, AWS CLI and boto3 are built on top of botocore --- a low-level Python library that takes care of everything needed to send an API request to AWS and receive a response back.