{"id":8205,"date":"2019-01-16T02:45:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T02:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=8205"},"modified":"2019-03-07T22:27:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T22:27:41","slug":"centos-install-aws-cli-linux-hint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2019\/01\/16\/centos-install-aws-cli-linux-hint\/","title":{"rendered":"CentOS Install AWS CLI \u2013 Linux Hint"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon is one of the most popular service providers as far as cloud platforms. Using the service, any business can share computing power, content delivery, database storage and a number of additional functionalities. Thus, Amazon offers the best service for businesses to scale and grow.The most business-friendly offer that comes up with the AWS is the pricing. Instead of charging a ton at the starting of each month\/year, Amazon treats them as utilities. You pay just as much as you use them and as long as you use them.<\/p>\n

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With the adjustable price, AWS offers the best platform for almost any use case\u00a0\u2013 data warehousing, directories to content delivery, deployment tools and much more!<\/p>\n

Another important factor of the cloud platform is the security. With AWS, the security is on the strongest level. Broad security certification and accreditation, strong data encryption at rest and in-transit, hardware security modules and strong physical security \u2013 every single features guarantee a perfect solution for the IT infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Now, for enjoying the feature of the AWS, there\u2019s already a powerful console tool available, known as the AWS CLI. It puts all the controls of multiple AWS services within a single tool. As the name suggests, it\u2019s a console tool.<\/p>\n

As of enterprise Linux, CentOS\/RHELE is the best choice as it comes up with a large community and professional support. Today, let\u2019s check out setting up the AWS CLI tool on CentOS\/RHEL.<\/p>\n

Setting up the system<\/strong><\/h1>\n

For installing AWS CLI, we need to set up the \u201cpip\u201d first. PIP is essentially the package manager for Python. Using the tool, it\u2019s possible to download and install various Python tools directly on your system.<\/p>\n

PIP is available on the EPEL repository, not the default one. Make sure that your system supports the EPEL repo.<\/p>\n

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sudo<\/span>\u00a0yum install<\/span>\u00a0epel-release<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Make sure that the \u201cyum\u201d database cache up-to-date \u2013<\/p>\n

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sudo<\/span>\u00a0yum update<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Now, it\u2019s time to install \u201cpip\u201d!<\/p>\n

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sudo<\/span>\u00a0yum install<\/span>\u00a0python-pip<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Note \u2013 The best way of enjoying the software is using Python 3. Python 2.7 is going to become obsolete at one point and Python 3 is going to prevail for sure. Learn\u00a0how to set up Python 3 on CentOS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For Python3, you need the \u201cpip3\u201d. It\u2019s specifically for Python 3 platform. Install \u201cpip3\u201d with the following command \u2013<\/p>\n

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sudo<\/span>\u00a0yum install<\/span>\u00a0python34-pip<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Installing AWS CLI<\/strong><\/h2>\n