BCS 450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tcsh, Software Development Kit, Powershell
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You can interact with aws in 3 ways: using the aws console user interface (ui, using the aws command line interface (cli, using the software development kits (sdks) The aws command line interface (cli) is a unified tool to manage your aws services. With just one tool to download and configure, you can control multiple aws services from the command line and automate them through scripts. The aws cli can be executed from: linux shells (bash,zsh,tcsh) from linux or macos, windows command line or powershell from windows os, remotely (running commands on ec2 via putty, ssh or aws. Aws iam features: shared access to your aws account, granular permission, secure access to your aws resources, identity information, integrated with many aws resources, free to use. Managed policies - policies that may be attached to many users, groups, and roles in your aws account. Managed policies only apply to identities (users, groups, and roles) and do not apply to resources.
