Using AWS from Windows Terminal

In this section, we'll set up an AWS account, experiment with the aws-shell command-line UI, and explore the AWS Tools for PowerShell.

AWS also has a cloud shell, similar to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Unfortunately, AWS CloudShell is browser-only for now and does not yet expose a programmatic interface that we can use to integrate it into Windows Terminal. As we can only use it from the browser, we won't be covering it in this book. Instead, we'll cover several useful command-line tools.

Before we get started, we'll need to create a free AWS account and generate some AWS access keys; our tools will use these access keys to interact with the AWS API on our behalf:

1. Sign up for an AWS account at https://aws.amazon.com/.
2. After the account is created, navigate to the AWS Console.
3. Go to the top-right account menu, as shown in Figure 14.10, and select My Security Credentials.
4. Generate new access keys. This...