I'm trying to run a python script file while in the AWS CLI. Does anyone have the syntax for that please? I've tried a few variations but without success:

aws ssm send-command --document-name "AWS-RunShellScript" --parameters commands=["/Documents/aws_instances_summary.py"]

I'm not looking to connect to a particular EC2 instance as the script gathers information about all instances

CodePudding user response：

aws ssm send-command runs the command on an EC2 instance, not on your local computer.

From your comments, it looks like you are actually trying to determine how to configure the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) with AWS API credentials, so you can run the script from your local computer and get information about the AWS account.

You would not use the AWS CLI tool at all for this purpose. Instead you would simply run the Python script directly, having configured the appropriate environment variables, or ~/.aws/credentials file, on your local computer with the API credentials. Please see the official documentation for configuring AWS API credentials for Boto3.

A minimal example would look something like this:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=your_access_key_id
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=your_secret_access_key
python aws_instances_summary.py

CodePudding user response：

Start the cron service sudo service crond start. Edit the crontab file using crontab -e. Add the file path of the file you want to run. Hit the “i” key to start editing the file and then add 0 */1 * * * python path/to/file . Make sure you give the full path to the python script that you want to run.