Who am I / which account

Confirm active account, ARN and assumed role before running risky commands

aws sts get-caller-identity --query '{acct:Account,arn:Arn}' --output table
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  • Assume role and export creds
    eval $(aws sts assume-role --role-arn <id> --role-session-name ops --query 'Credentials.[`AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=`+AccessKeyId,`AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=`+SecretAccessKey,`AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=`+SessionToken]' --output text | sed 's/^/export /')

    Assume an IAM role and inject temp creds into the shell env in one shot

  • EC2 instances by tag as table
    aws ec2 describe-instances --filters Name=tag:Env,Values=prod Name=instance-state-name,Values=running --query 'Reservations[].Instances[].{id:InstanceId,ip:PrivateIpAddress,az:Placement.AvailabilityZone}' --output table

    List running prod instances with id, private IP and AZ via JMESPath projection

  • S3 sync with delete + excludes
    aws s3 sync ./ s3://<name>/ --delete --exclude '*.tmp' --exclude '.git/*' --size-only

    Mirror dir to bucket; --delete removes stale keys. note: --size-only skips mtime checks

  • Presigned S3 download URL
    aws s3 presign s3://<name>/path/file.tgz --expires-in 3600

    Generate a time-limited download URL without making the object public

  • Update kubeconfig for EKS
    aws eks update-kubeconfig --name <cluster> --region <id> --alias <cluster> --kubeconfig ~/.kube/config

    Add/refresh an EKS context with a clean alias instead of the long ARN

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