Specifying parameter values for the Amazon CLI
Many parameters used in the Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI) are simple string or numeric values, such as
the key-pair name my-key-pair
in the following example.
$
aws ec2 create-key-pair--key-name my-key-pair
You can surround strings that do not contain any space characters with quotation marks or not. However, you must use quotation marks around strings that include one or more space characters. For more information about using quotation marks around complex parameters, see Using quotation marks with strings in the Amazon CLI.
Parameter topics