AMI

aws cli

Some currated list of useful aws CLI commands.

• API Gateway

  desc	command
  get-domain-names	$ aws apigatewayv2 get-domain-names

• SSM

  desc	command
  get parameter	$ aws --profile default ssm get-parameter --with-decryption --name "<ssm path>"
  put parameter	$ aws ssm put-parameter --name <path> --value <value> --type SecureString --key-id <KMS key ID>

• Cloudformation

  desc	command
  tail for CF events	$tail-stack-events -f --die -n 5 --region <region> -s <stack name>

• SQS

  desc	command
  receive one message	$ aws sqs receive-message --queue-url <queue url> --region <region>
  get attributes of queue	$ aws sqs get-queue-attributes --queue-url <queue url> --region <region> --attribute-names All
  purge queue	$ aws sqs purge-queue --queue-url <queue url>

• DynamodDB

  desc	command
  scan with expression	$ aws dynamodb scan --table-name <table name> --filter-expression "repo_name = :repo" --expression-attribute-values '{":repo":{"S":"my_repo"}}' --projection-expression <table fields>
  scan	aws dynamodb scan --table-name tiddlers --endpoint http://127.0.0.1:8000

  • Delete multiple items

    Use scan to retrieve list of items and save to same file:

    1	$ aws dynamodb scan --table-name <table name> --filter-expression "repo_name = :repo" --expression-attribute-values '{":repo":{"S":"my_repo"}}' --projection-expression "unique_id" > results.log

    Then use delete-item to delete single entries:

    1	$ cat results.log | jq -r ".Items[] | tojson" | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 -I keyItem aws dynamodb delete-item --table-name <table name> --key=keyItem

Tools

Tool	Description
awless	A mighty CLI for AWS
saws	A supercharged CLI based on aws cli

SQS

• Amazon SQS visibility timeout