AWS CLI - seanremenyi/Notes_aws_developer GitHub Wiki

Least privelidge principle - least amount of access to do their job Use groups is best practice -Use policies to groups and iam users to groups

secret access key can be shown once, will have to delete regenerate and use aws configure to use new one supports linux, maco, windows each dev should have their own, don't share

pre installed on ec2s

Pagination contro the nuber of items included in the output when you run cli command by default uses a "page size" of 1000 for a 3000 item thing, cli needs to make 3 api calls but will show everything default pagesize of 100 might be too high might lead to timed out errors fix default page size using flag --page-size to request smalled number of items cli still retrieves the full list but performs a large number of API calls in the background and retrieves a smalled number of items with each call --page-size 100 --max-items 100 (returns fewer items)