Most beginners start with AWS Console, the default GUI, while seasoned sysadmins generally prefer a command-line interface (CLI). Problem is, the AWS CLI is not user friendly.

AWS has now developed a new set of command line tools called AWS CLI that consolidates various tools related to AWS. Its a unified set of tools that support popular services including EC2, RDS ...

For example, in AWS CLI v1 the TAB key can be used to complete command and parameter names. In AWS CLI v2, they have taken it a step further by being able to auto-complete server-side resource names.

Aws ec2 create-volume –generate-cli-skeleton > volume.json You can see an example of this in Figure 1. [Click on image for larger view.] Figure 1. This is how you create a CLI skeleton. If you want to ...