Amazon integration in AL2 - Amazon Linux 2
Amazon command line tools
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Amazon integration in AL2

Amazon command line tools

The Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI) is an open source tool that provides a consistent interface to interact with Amazon Web Services services using commands in your command-line shell. For more information, see What is the Amazon Command Line Interface? in the Amazon Command Line Interface User Guide.

AL2 and AL1 have version 1 of the Amazon CLI preinstalled. The current release of Amazon Linux, AL2023, has version 2 of the Amazon CLI preinstalled. For more information about using the Amazon CLI on AL2023, see Get started with AL2023 in the AL2023 User Guide.