AWS setting up new account for cli

This is brief guide to set up new account in AWS. As a first step you need to sign-up for AWS services with email id, credit card info etc. Once you have this in place that means you are user of AWS. AWS root user is like high level entity of the infrastructure.

Now we need to start using cli, So first step is to create IAM user from the AWS console. Create a new IAM user with Access Type - Programmatic Access. I am giving a name as cli-user with full admin access and giving new group name as cli-user-group.

After this we'll have key and secrets, So we could set environment variables

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<some-key>
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<some-secret>
export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=<some-valid-region>

Now test the connectivity

aws iam get-user

If everything works then you'll get some output like this

{
    "User": {
        "Path": "/",
        "UserName": "cli-user",
        "UserId": "sdfalsdjlsdajf",
        "Arn": "arn:aws:iam::4834039404:user/cli-user",
        "CreateDate": "2021-07-14T10:10:02+00:00"
    }
}