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Configuring the ~/.aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config files for use by the AWS cli and git

1. Ensure AWS CLI is installed
   

   curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
   unzip awscliv2.zip
   ./aws/install

2.  ~/.aws/credentials is created

   [testCredentials]
   aws_access_key_id = A******************L
   aws_secret_access_key = g*****************************************g
   

3.  ~/.aws/config is created and correct - for the role to access with and the users's MFA (if set up, it almost certainly is)
   

   [default]
   region=eu-west-2
   output=json
   
   [profile testProfile]
   region=eu-west-2
   output=json
   source_profile=testCredentials
   role_arn=arn:aws:iam::1xxxxxxxxxx1:role/Administrator
   mfa_serial=arn:aws:iam::4xxxxxxxxxx2:mfa/paul.sullivan
   

4. construct a command...

   /usr/local/bin/aws s3 ls --profile testProfile s3://somebucket

ASCII / UTF8 - character sets

If you are using AWS cli in bash ascii environment release that AWS is UTF-8 based - so you might get an error like:

'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe9' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

The fix for this is to switch to a UTF-8 charset like this:

root@db:~# export LANG=C.UTF-8