AWS Tools for PowerShell on macOS

May 3, 2019 #aws #powershell #macos

Since you can never have too many command lines and shells, today I thought about Installing PowerShell Core on macOS.

$ brew cask install powershell
$ pwsh
PowerShell 6.2.0
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

https://aka.ms/pscore6-docs
Type 'help' to get help.

PS> Get-Date

Friday, May 3, 2019 6:49:34 PM

After that, it was time for Setting up the AWS Tools for PowerShell Core on Linux or macOS X and making sure it worked.

PS> Install-Module -Name AWSPowerShell.NetCore -AllowClobber
PS> Import-Module AWSPowerShell.NetCore
PS> Get-AWSPowerShellVersion

AWS Tools for PowerShell Core
Version 3.3.498.0
Copyright 2012-2018 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.

Amazon Web Services SDK for .NET
Core Runtime Version 3.3.101.0
Copyright 2009-2015 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.

Release notes: https://aws.amazon.com/releasenotes/PowerShell

This software includes third party software subject to the following copyrights:
- Logging from log4net, Apache License
[http://logging.apache.org/log4net/license.html]

Then my favorite command: AWS Security Token Service Get Caller Identity

PS> $STS = Get-STSCallerIdentity -ProfileName aws-account-alias -Region us-west-2
PS> $STS.Account
123456789012
PS> $STS.UserId
AROAXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:kevin.hakanson@example.com
PS> $STS.Arn
arn:aws:sts::123456789012:assumed-role/REDACTED-ReadOnly/kevin.hakanson@example.com