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AWS CLI Cheat Sheet: Essential Commands for DevOps

AWS CLI quick reference: S3, EC2, ECS, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch, and RDS commands you use every day.

S3

aws s3 ls s3://bucket/\naws s3 cp file.txt s3://bucket/\naws s3 sync ./dir s3://bucket/dir\naws s3 rm s3://bucket/file.txt

EC2

aws ec2 describe-instances --query 'Reservations[].Instances[].{ID:InstanceId,State:State.Name,IP:PublicIpAddress}' --output table\naws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids i-12345\naws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids i-12345

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