Interacting with AWS Services

1. AWS Console
2. Command Line Interface (CLI)
3. Software Development Kit (SDK)

1. AWS Console

2. AWS CLI

AWS CLI is a method to monitor and control your AWS resources from Command Line. This requires installation of the AWS CLI software

Download and Install

• Windows
• Mac
• Linux
  curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64-2.0.30.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install

Guide

Once installed, execute the following in your Terminal / Command Prompt

aws --version

3. AWS SDK

To monitor or control the resources of an AWS account from within a program, SDKs/Libraries are used that’s specific to a programming language. Know more about the AWS SDK here

Since we will be using Python Programming language, you may install the Python library for AWS by executing the following in your python installed computer

pip3 install boto3

To check if the installation has completed successfully, open the python interpreter

python3
>> import boto3

Know more here