AWS Quick CLI allows listing, starting, stopping and connecting to instances by name or instance-id.

This utility suite consists of four utilities: aws-list, aws-start, aws-stop, and aws-ssh.

• SSH to an Instance: aws-ssh NAME or aws-ssh -i ID

  • Additional parameters described in Details

• List Instances: aws-list

  • Additional parameters described in Details

• Start Instance: aws-start NAME or aws-start -i ID

• Stop Instance: aws-stop NAME or aws-stop -i ID

• SSH to Instance: aws-ssh NAME or aws-ssh -i ID

  • automatically calculates login-name based on the image-type of the instance
  • override the calculated login-name -u USERNAME
  • connect without PEM keys (if properly configured) -p
  • command specific help aws-ssh -h

• List Instances: aws-list

  • list all instances (default).
  • list running instances -r or --running
  • list stopped instances -s or --stopped
  • list instances with specified name aws-list NAME
  • list instance with specified instance-id aws-list -i ID
  • command specific help aws-list -h

• Start Instance: aws-start NAME or aws-start -i ID

  • start instance by name or instance-id
  • command specific help aws-start -h

• Stop Instance: aws-stop NAME or aws-stop -i ID

  • start instance by name or instance-id
  • command specific help aws-stop -h

• Linux
• macOS (OS X)
• Windows 10 'Bash on Windows'

• The AWS CLI utilities must installed and configured
  • Do not install the AWS CLI via a package manager - this usually installs an outdated version which will not work with these utilities.
• Instructions for installing the AWS-CLI utilities are included at the bottom of this README in the section Reference - Installation of AWS-CLI and or on the AWS Website.

The utilities in the repo can be installed with curl

bash -c "`curl -s -L https://raw.github.com/robertpeteuil/aws-quick-cli/master/install.sh`"

If the repo has been downloaded locally, cd into the directory and run install.sh

cd aws-quick-cli
./install.sh

• Installation requires Python 2 version 2.6.5+ or Python 3 version 3.3+
• Installation requires the unzip command, which can be installed by typing sudo apt-get install unzip
• Do not install the AWS CLI via a package manager - this may install an outdated version that's incompatible with these utilities.
• For help or additional instruction see the AWS Website

$ cd ~
$ mkdir tmpawsinstall
$ cd tmpawsinstall
$ curl "https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cli/awscli-bundle.zip" -o "awscli-bundle.zip"
$ unzip awscli-bundle.zip
$ sudo ./awscli-bundle/install -i /usr/local/aws -b /usr/local/bin/aws
$ cd ..
$ rm -rf tmpawsinstall

$ cd ~
$ mkdir tmpawsinstall
$ cd tmpawsinstall
$ curl "https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cli/awscli-bundle.zip" -o "awscli-bundle.zip"
$ unzip awscli-bundle.zip
$ ./awscli-bundle/install -b ~/bin/aws
$ cd ..
$ rm -rf tmpawsinstall

Additional steps for non-sudo installations:

• manually add the ~/bin directory to your PATH
• This is performed by editing your shell profile
  • This file is either ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_rc depending on your OS.

• Configuration requires using your AWS Access Key ID # and AWS Secret Access Key and running the command: aws configure
• If you don't have these, refer to the AWS getting started page
• Check here for more information on configuring the AWS-CLI