I’ve been experimenting with the new Python based AWS CLI tool, and its getting to be very good indeed. It can support multiple login profiles, so its easy to switch between the various separate AWS accounts you may use.
Today I’ve been using it from Windows (!), and was searching for a specific AMI ID, and wanted to share the syntax for those who want to do similar:
C:\>aws --profile my-profile --region us-east-1 ec2 describe-images --filters name=image-id,values=ami-51ff9238 C:\>aws --profile my-profile --region us-east-1 ec2 describe-image-attribute --attribute launchPermission --image-id ami-51ff9238 C:\>aws --profile my-profile --region us-east-1 ec2 modify-image-attribute ami-51ff9238 --image-id --operation-type remove --attribute launchPermission --user-groups all C:\>aws --profile my-profile --region us-east-1 ec2 modify-image-attribute ami-51ff9238 --image-id --operation-type add --attribute launchPermission --user-groups all
aws –profile turnkey –region ap-southeast-2 ec2 modify-image-attribute ami-fd46d6c7 –image-id –operation-type remove –attribute launchPermission –user-groups all
aws –profile turnkey –region ap-southeast-2 ec2 modify-image-attribute ami-fd46d6c7 –image-id –operation-type add –attribute launchPermission –user-groups all