Access Keys, CLI, and SDK
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Time
19 hours 19 minutes
Difficulty
Intermediate
CEU/CPE
20
Video Transcription
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>> Hello and welcome back.
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In this lesson, we're going to be talking about
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access keys, CLI and SDK.
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The learning objectives are going to be to understand
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the various ways that users can access
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their AWS accounts and we'll go into
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a bit more detail on
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the CLI and the SDK and how that technology works.
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Users can access their AWS accounts
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in three different ways and when you're
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setting up a user within identity and access management,
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you're going to need to understand
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these different methods because
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as you're configuring access to that user,
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you will have to select which method you want
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the user to engage with the AWS resources.
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To start the most common way
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is the AWS management console,
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which is that visual graphical user interface
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or GUI that we interact with on the website.
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The second is the Command Line Interface,
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and the third is the Software Development Kits.
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The AWS management console is basically
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that thing that we use when we go onto AWS.amazon.com,
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we log into our account and we're on
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the website and we're doing stuff in the Cloud.
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If it very much looks like the user
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just browsing the internet, browsing the website.
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It's a web interface for
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a web application that allows the user to
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manage their AWS services and to be quite honest,
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it's very good, it's very robust.
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You can always do things in it.
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There are certain things that you can do a little bit
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better if you're into programming and that sort of thing.
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You can do that with the CLI might be a bit better
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than doing it within the management console,
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but for the most part,
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the Management Console allows you to do
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just about everything that you need or
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just about everything that most people would need.
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You can set up your account for free.
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We've covered a lot of this so you should know by now
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a lot of the things you can do within
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the management console and as we go along in this course,
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you're going to get to see a lot more.
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You can build servers and
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databases and you can write code,
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and this is very good stuff.
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The AWS Command Line Interface,
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otherwise known as the CLI,
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is a thing that we are able
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to interact with that doesn't look so pretty.
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It doesn't have pictures,
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and all of that good stuff but if you're
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familiar with the command line for Windows,
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or if you're familiar with
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the terminal for Linux or Macintosh,
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the Command Line Interface is what you would use
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inside of those two environments
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or PowerShell so three environments.
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You have Command Line for Windows,
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PowerShell for Windows,
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or Terminal for Linux and Mac which terminal same thing.
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The CLI is something that you can
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use on any of those environments.
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Basically, it looks like you're writing code,
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like what we see here on this picture.
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It looks like code, but it's not.
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You're just writing commands to
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the computer through the terminal
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to have your computer on your local environments in
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front of you engage with the cloud computers.
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You can still deploy servers,
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you can still upload files,
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you can still delete things if you want to.
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You could do all those things,
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but you would need to understand
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the CLI commands in order to do that.
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This is a very handy tool and if
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you're a techie like myself,
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then you might find some enjoyments in using
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the CLI versus the console
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because it's quick, because it's convenient.
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If you're already in your
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Terminal or if you're already in your IDE,
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then it's very handy to just be
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able to drop a line of code or to
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write a script even that engages your Cloud environment.
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Sometimes you don't even have to,
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you can just have the script for you.
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It's very good.
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The CLI is allowed direct
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access to the AWS accounts through public APIs,
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which are completely secure.
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Everything is secure. It is the API that AWS provides.
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The AWS CLI is an open-source thing so
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you can find this on
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GitHub through that link that I have there.
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It authenticates to your environments that
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your AWS account securely
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using something called Access Keys.
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Now Access Keys when you are
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granting a user in identity and access management.
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When you're granting a user CLI access,
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you can grant them an Access Key,
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and when you're granting them access
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to interact with services in the Cloud.
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The access key is what's being used
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to authenticate not only to
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the AWS account but so the
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resources themselves. Very handy.
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The AWS Software Development Kit, or SDK,
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is what is being used for the specific libraries,
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for applications to interact and to
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function in an AWS accounts.
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It enables access to AWS service
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programmatically and you can
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embed it within the applications.
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The different languages that
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are supported by this method are JavaScript,
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Java, Python, PHP, Go,
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Ruby,.Net, and there's
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a few others as well but those are the main ones.
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That about wraps up this one.
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Brief but clear.
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I think it's helpful to provide some context
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here on the different access methods that you can use.
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Again, as you're setting up users,
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you're going to have a question in there and
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your IAM setup process where it's going to ask,
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how would you like this user to
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interact with your AWS account?
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And they're going to ask for SDK,
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for CLI, or just the standard management console.
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Be sure to select all those wastes
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that you would like and play around with them.
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It's also very handy.
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One thing that I found to be
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very helpful when preparing for
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the certification is to
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test out the waters with everything.
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Learn it by doing.
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If you do that, you'll be successful.
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That wraps up this lesson.
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I will see you in the next one.
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