How to use multiple AWS Accounts from the command line?

Question

I\'ve got two different apps that I am hosting (well the second one is about to go up) on Amazon EC2.

How can I work with both accounts at the command line (Mac OS X

Answer 1

The new aws tools now support multiple profiles.

If you configure access with the tools, it automatically creates a default in ~/.aws/config.

You can then add additional profiles - more details at:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html#cli-multiple-profiles