Step 2: Set Up the Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI) - Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
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Step 2: Set Up the Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI)

In this step, you download and configure the Amazon CLI to use with Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink for Flink Applications.

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The getting started exercises in this guide assume that you are using administrator credentials (adminuser) in your account to perform the operations.

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If you already have the Amazon CLI installed, you might need to upgrade to get the latest functionality. For more information, see Installing the Amazon Command Line Interface in the Amazon Command Line Interface User Guide. To check the version of the Amazon CLI, run the following command:

aws --version

The exercises in this tutorial require the following Amazon CLI version or later:

aws-cli/1.16.63
To set up the Amazon CLI

  1. Download and configure the Amazon CLI. For instructions, see the following topics in the Amazon Command Line Interface User Guide:

  2. Add a named profile for the administrator user in the Amazon CLI config file. You use this profile when executing the Amazon CLI commands. For more information about named profiles, see Named Profiles in the Amazon Command Line Interface User Guide.

    [profile adminuser]
aws_access_key_id = adminuser access key ID
aws_secret_access_key = adminuser secret access key
region = aws-region

    For a list of available Amazon Regions, see Amazon Regions and Endpoints in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

  3. Verify the setup by entering the following help command at the command prompt: 

    aws help

After you set up an Amazon account and the Amazon CLI, you can try the next exercise, in which you configure a sample application and test the end-to-end setup.

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Step 3: Create and Run a Managed Service for Apache Flink for Flink Application