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Setting up the Amazon Redshift CLI - Amazon Redshift
Installing the AWS Command Line Interface

Setting up the Amazon Redshift CLI

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This section explains how to set up and run the AWS CLI command line tools for use in managing Amazon Redshift. The Amazon Redshift command line tools run on the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), which in turn uses Python (https://www.python.org/). The AWS CLI can be run on any operating system that supports Python.

Installing the AWS Command Line Interface

To begin using the Amazon Redshift command line tools, you first set up the AWS CLI, and then you add configuration files that define the Amazon Redshift CLI options.

If you have already installed and configured the AWS CLI for another AWS service, you can skip this procedure.

To install the AWS Command Line Interface

  1. Go to Install or update to the latest version of the AWS CLI, and then follow the instructions for installing the AWS CLI.

    For CLI access, you need an access key ID and a secret access key. Use temporary credentials instead of long-term access keys when possible. Temporary credentials include an access key ID, a secret access key, and a security token that indicates when the credentials expire. For more information, see Using temporary credentials with AWS resources in the IAM User Guide.

  2. Create a file containing configuration information such as your access keys, default region, and command output format. Then set the AWS_CONFIG_FILE environment variable to reference that file. For detailed instructions, go to Configuring the AWS command line interface in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide.

  3. Run a test command to confirm that the AWS CLI interface is working. For example, the following command should display help information for the AWS CLI:

    aws help

    The following command should display help information for Amazon Redshift:

    aws redshift help

For reference material on the Amazon Redshift CLI commands, go to Amazon Redshift in the AWS CLI Reference.

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