AWS for Developers

Obtain AWS Credentials from Administrator

Contact the AWS administrator to get credentials for logging into the AWS console and (if necessary) interacting with AWS via the command line.

Add your SSH credentials to AWS

Once you have a login to the AWS console: if you wish to use the AWS-CLI, or use any other command line program which connects to AWS (e.g. git for CodeCommit) you will need to register/add an SSH key on your AWS-CLI account.

You can use an existing ssh key, or create a new one.

AWS CLI

You need to install the AWS CLI if you, or a tool you use, needa to interact with AWS from the command line - for example:

• To use terraform to maintain AWS

• To deploy webapps to AWS

• To modify AWS objects from the command line

Install AWS-CLI

Follow the instructions here.

You want to install the AWS-CLI on you local machine, not inside a container. Follow the Mac, Windows or Linux instructions accroding to the OS you are using.

Add AWS-CLI credentials

Verify AWS is installed using LINUX console:

/usr/local/bin/aws --version

You should see an output something like:

aws-cli/2.7.4 Python/3.9.11 Linux/5.10.102.1 .....

If not then return to the "Install AWS-CLI" section above.

Obtain your secret access keys for AWS from the AWS administrator, and then create the AWS credentials file using the LINUX console:

echo "[cityofboston]" > ~/.aws/credentials
echo "aws_access_key_id = xxxxxx" >> ~/.aws/credentials
echo "aws_secret_access_key = xxxxx" >> ~/.aws/credentials

Alternatively, you could create and edit the ~/.aws/credentials file using any text editor.