Set Up the AWS CLI - Amazon Forecast

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Set Up the AWS CLI

The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) is a unified developer tool for managing AWS services, including Amazon Forecast. We recommend that you install and use it.

  1. To install the AWS CLI, follow the instructions in Installing the AWS Command Line Interface in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide.

  2. To configure the AWS CLI and set up a profile to call it, follow the instructions in Configuring the AWS CLI in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide.

  3. To confirm that the AWS CLI profile is configured correctly, run the following command in a command window:

    aws configure --profile default

    If your profile has been configured correctly, you should see output similar to the following:

    AWS Access Key ID [****************52FQ]: 
AWS Secret Access Key [****************xgyZ]: 
Default region name [us-west-2]: 
Default output format [json]:

  4. To verify that the AWS CLI is configured for use with Amazon Forecast, run the following commands.

    aws forecast help
    aws forecastquery help

    If the AWS CLI is configured correctly, you will see a list of the supported AWS CLI commands for Amazon Forecast or Amazon Forecast Query.