Summary

Now that you have gone through this chapter, you have everything you need to begin using the AWS CLI effectively. The AWS CLI is a powerful administrative tool for managing your AWS account. Whereas this was definitely not a comprehensive review of every command, feature, and function available to us in the CLI, the basic concepts and examples you have learned will give you the tools you need to learn about and solve nearly any challenge or use case you may require the use of the AWS CLI for.

We will put that knowledge to good use in the next chapter, and every remaining chapter, of this book. Next, we will take a deep dive into IAM user accounts. This will include the types of accounts and the different administrative requirements that each has. We will also look more closely at passwords, password policy, programmatic credentials, and multifactor credentials. Moreover, we will learn how to manage each and every one of those things using the AWS CLI.