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aws cli cheatsheet.md

AWS Best Practices

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wiGpBQGCjU

Setup

  • Virtualbox
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS VM, 64-bit http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/ubuntu-14.04.4-desktop-amd64.iso
  • create new machine, settings System / Processor Enable PAE/NX System / Acceleration Paravirtualization Interface: Default Enable VT-x/AMD-V Enable Nested Paging Display / Screen Video Memory: 128MB Acceleration: Enable 3D Acceleration
  • boot
  • install

install Virtualbox Guest Additions, passwordless sudo

echo $USER sudo echo "$USER ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" | sudo tee -a /etc/sudoers sudo su apt-get update apt-get install -y build-essential dkms linux-headers-$(uname -r) cd /media/aws-admin/ sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run shutdown now

install AWS CLI

sudo apt-get install -y python-dev python-pip sudo pip install awscli aws --version aws configure

Bash one-liners

cat # output a file tee # split output into a file cut -f 2 # print the 2nd column, per line sed -n '5{p;q}' # print the 5th line in a file sed 1d # print all lines, except the first tail -n +2 # print all lines, starting on the 2nd head -n 5 # print the first 5 lines tail -n 5 # print the last 5 lines

expand # convert tabs to 4 spaces unexpand -a # convert 4 spaces to tabs wc # word count tr ' ' \t # translate / convert characters to other characters

sort # sort data uniq # show only unique entries paste # combine rows of text, by line join # combine rows of text, by initial column value

Cloudtrail - Logging and Auditing

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/cloudtrail/

5 Trails total, does support resource level permissions

aws cloudtrail describe-trails

aws s3 ls

aws cloudtrail create-subscription
--name awslog
--s3-new-bucket awslog2016

aws cloudtrail describe-trails --output text | cut -f 8

aws cloudtrail get-trail-status
--name awslog

aws cloudtrail delete-trail
--name awslog

aws s3 rb s3://awslog2016 --force

add up to 10 tags

aws cloudtrail add-tags
--resource-id awslog
--tags-list "Key=log-type,Value=all"

aws cloudtrail list-tags
--resource-id-list

aws cloudtrail remove-tags
--resource-id awslog
--tags-list "Key=log-type,Value=all"

IAM - Users

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/iam/index.html

https://blogs.aws.amazon.com/security/post/Tx15CIT22V4J8RP/How-to-rotate-access-keys-for-IAM-users

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_iam-limits.html

Limits = 5000 users, 100 group, 250 roles, 2 access keys / user

list all user's info

aws iam list-users

list all user's usernames

aws iam list-users --output text | cut -f 6

list current user's info

aws iam get-user

list current user's access keys

aws iam list-access-keys

crate new user

aws iam create-user
--user-name aws-admin2

create multiple new users, from a file

allUsers=$(cat ./user-names.txt) for userName in $allUsers; do aws iam create-user
--user-name $userName done

list all users

aws iam list-users --no-paginate

get a specific user's info

aws iam get-user
--user-name aws-admin2

delete one user

aws iam delete-user
--user-name aws-admin2

delete all users

allUsers=$(aws iam list-users --output text | cut -f 6);

allUsers=$(cat ./user-names.txt) for userName in $allUsers; do aws iam delete-user
--user-name $userName done

IAM - Password policy

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/iam/delete-account-password-policy.html

aws iam delete-account-password-policy

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/iam/get-account-password-policy.html

aws iam get-account-password-policy

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/iam/update-account-password-policy.html

aws iam update-account-password-policy
--minimum-password-length 12
--require-symbols
--require-numbers
--require-uppercase-characters
--require-lowercase-characters
--allow-users-to-change-password

IAM - Access Keys

aws iam list-access-keys

aws iam list-access-keys
--user-name aws-admin2

aws iam create-access-key
--user-name aws-admin2
--output text | tee aws-admin2.txt

aws iam get-access-key-last-used
--access-key-id AKIAINA6AJZY4EXAMPLE

aws iam update-access-key
--access-key-id AKIAI44QH8DHBEXAMPLE
--status Inactive
--user-name aws-admin2

aws iam delete-access-key
--access-key-id AKIAI44QH8DHBEXAMPLE
--user-name aws-admin2

IAM - Groups, Policies, Managed Policies

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles.html

aws iam list-groups

aws iam create-group --group-name FullAdmins

aws iam delete-group
--group-name FullAdmins

aws iam list-policies

aws iam get-policy
--policy-arn

list all users, groups, and roles, for a given policy

aws iam list-entities-for-policy
--policy-arn

list policies, for a given group

aws iam list-attached-group-policies
--group-name FullAdmins

aws iam attach-group-policy
--group-name FullAdmins
--policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AdministratorAccess

aws iam add-user-to-group
--group-name FullAdmins
--user-name aws-admin2

list users, for a given group

aws iam get-group
--group-name FullAdmins

list groups, for a given user

aws iam list-groups-for-user
--user-name aws-admin2

aws iam remove-user-from-group
--group-name FullAdmins
--user-name aws-admin2

aws iam detach-group-policy
--group-name FullAdmins
--policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AdministratorAccess

aws iam delete-group
--group-name FullAdmins

EC2 - Keypairs

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-key-pairs.html

aws ec2 describe-key-pairs

aws ec2 create-key-pair
--key-name

create a new private / public keypair, using RSA 2048-bit

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048

aws ec2 import-key-pair
--key-name keyname_test
--public-key-material file:///home/apollo/id_rsa.pub

aws ec2 delete-key-pair
--key-name

EC2 - Security Groups

aws ec2 describe-security-groups

aws ec2 create-security-group
--vpc-id vpc-1a2b3c4d
--group-name web-access
--description "web access"

aws ec2 describe-security-groups
--group-id sg-0000000

open port 80, for everyone

aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress
--group-id sg-0000000
--protocol tcp
--port 80
--cidr 0.0.0.0/24

get my public ip

my_ip=$(dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com); echo $my_ip

open port 22, just for my ip

aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress
--group-id sg-0000000
--protocol tcp
--port 80
--cidr $my_ip/24

aws ec2 revoke-security-group-ingress
--group-id sg-0000000
--protocol tcp
--port 80
--cidr 0.0.0.0/24

aws ec2 delete-security-group
--group-id sg-00000000

EC2 - Instances, Tags

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/index.html#cli-aws-ec2 http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/run-instances.html

aws ec2 describe-instances

aws ec2 run-instances
--image-id ami-f0e7d19a \ --instance-type t2.micro
--security-group-ids sg-00000000
--dry-run

aws ec2 terminate-instances
--instance-ids <instance_id>

aws ec2 describe-instances

aws ec2 describe-tags

aws ec2 create-tags
--resources "ami-1a2b3c4d"
--tags Key=name,Value=debian

aws ec2 delete-tags
--resources "ami-1a2b3c4d"
--tags Key=Name,Value=

Cloudwatch - Monitoring

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/cloudwatch/index.html

Cloudwatch - Logs

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/WhatIsCloudWatchLogs.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/logs/index.html#cli-aws-logs

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/logs/create-log-group.html aws logs create-log-group
--log-group-name "DefaultGroup"

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/logs/describe-log-groups.html aws logs describe-log-groups

aws logs describe-log-groups
--log-group-name-prefix "Default"

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/logs/delete-log-group.html aws logs delete-log-group
--log-group-name "DefaultGroup"

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/logs/create-log-stream.html

Log group names can be between 1 and 512 characters long. Allowed characters include a-z, A-Z, 0-9, '_' (underscore), '-' (hyphen), '/' (forward slash), and '.' (period).

aws logs create-log-stream
--log-group-name "DefaultGroup"
--log-stream-name "syslog"

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/logs/describe-log-streams.html

aws logs describe-log-streams

aws logs describe-log-streams
--log-group-name "syslog"

aws logs describe-log-streams
--log-stream-name-prefix "syslog"

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/logs/delete-log-stream.html aws logs delete-log-stream
--log-group-name "DefaultGroup"
--log-stream-name "Default Stream"

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