The AWS CLI can be an incredibly efficient means of interacting with your AWS account, but there is a steep learning curve for beginners and the breadth and depth of functionality can be overwhelming.
Enter aws-shell. It’s an interactive shell that provides cool features like:
- Auto/tab completion of commands and options as you type
- Examples of the shorthand syntax for various options
- Fuzzy searching
- Integration with your account (for autocompleting instance IDs for example)
- Inline documentation/help
Note: If you are like me and don’t read the instructions before getting started and you are running El Capitan take note of the need to install with some extra flags:
sudo pip install aws-shell –upgrade –ignore-installed six
This offers both the new and seasoned AWS user a path to AWS CLI mastery and efficiency.