Installed Amazon Tools for PowerShell on Amazon CloudShell - Amazon Tools for PowerShell (version 5)
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Version 5 (V5) of the Amazon Tools for PowerShell has been released!

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Installed Amazon Tools for PowerShell on Amazon CloudShell

AWS.Tools is pre-installed on Amazon CloudShell as described in Pre-installed software in the Amazon CloudShell User Guide. Since console credentials are automatically passed to CloudShell, a user with permissions to open CloudShell can immediately run Tools for PowerShell cmdlets without additional installation or configuration.

To use the Amazon Tools for PowerShell on CloudShell, perform steps similar to the following:

  1. Open the CloudShell Console.

  2. Run pwsh.

  3. Run any AWS.Tools PowerShell commands you need such as Get-S3Bucket.