passing access and secret key aws cli

Question

I am trying to embed access and secret key along with aws cli. e.g.

aws ec2 describe-instances --aws-access-key  --aws-secret-key 

        

Answer 1

Its the best way and more secure to use IAM roles. There you can set specific rights to this instance and what it has to access in your account.

Depending on what awscli version you use you can use describe-instances in a couple ways.

Like this one:

ec2din -O your-key -W your-secret-key --region your-region

Also there is a big difference when you install awscli with pip install or from pkg like ubuntu deb package.

ec2din is a short command to ec2-describe-instances

More examples here: ec2-describe-instances

Regards.