Question

I’m using an Amazon Linux EC2 instance and am wondering What AWS CLI tools are installed by default on it.

Is it just the EC2 CLI API tools? How can one tell? Also where is the preferred single location on an EC2 instance to install each of the various CLI tools (RDS, cloudwatch, etc.) if they aren’t installed already?

If you might answer each of these questions I’d be greatly appreciative.

Answer 1

For the Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03, here’s the list of installed packages.

To answer your question, here’s the list of AWS tools:

• aws-amitools-ec2-1.4.0.7
• aws-apitools-as-1.0.61.0
• aws-apitools-cfn-1.0.9
• aws-apitools-common-1.1.0
• aws-apitools-ec2-1.5.5.0
• aws-apitools-elb-1.0.17.0
• aws-apitools-iam-1.5.0
• aws-apitools-mon-1.0.12.1
• aws-apitools-rds-1.8.002
• aws-cfn-bootstrap-1.1
• aws-scripts-ses-2012.05.15

According to Amazon Linux AMI Basics:

to allow the installation of multiple versions of the API and AMI
tools, we have placed symlinks to the desired versions of these tools
in /opt/aws, as described here:

/opt/aws/bin—Symlink farm to /bin directories in each of the installed
tools directories.

/opt/aws/{apitools|amitools}—Products are installed in directories of
the form [name]-version and symlink [name] attached to the most
recently installed version.

/opt/aws/{apitools|amitools}/[name]/environment.sh—Used by
/etc/profile.d/aws-apitools-common.sh to set product-specific
environment variables (EC2_HOME, etc.).