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

Maybe it still help someone. You can set it manually.

1) Set in file

~/.aws/credentials

this

[default]
aws_access_key_id={{aws_access_key_id}}
aws_secret_access_key={{aws_secret_access_key}}

[{{profile_name}}]
aws_access_key_id={{aws_access_key_id}}
aws_secret_access_key={{aws_secret_access_key}}

• {{aws_access_key_id}} you can get in section AWS Console > Identity and Access Management > Security Credentials > Access Keys

2) Set in file

~/.aws/config

this

[default]
region={{region}}
output={{output:"json||text"}}

[profile {{profile_name}}]
region={{region}}
output={{output:"json||text"}}

3) Test it with AWS Command Line and command and output will be JSON

aws ec2 describe-instances --profile {{profile_name}}

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Ref

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