To work with the AWS cloud resources, the AWS CLI needs to be downloaded and installed on your particular computer OS. Then, it needs to be configured- I used the AI responses from a google query to learn that I first needed to create a user within IAM, give that user permissions, and download a key-pair set. With those key-pair credentials, the AWS CLI configuration can be set with a few commands (aka ‘aws configure’) using those key-pair values.

Having done that, I was then able to access my account using the CLI. For example, I created a S3 bucket using the ‘aws s3api create-bucket’ command:

$ aws s3api create-bucket --bucket thisisatestbucket --region us-east-1

This resulted in the bucket being created. I was able to verify this by listing my s3 buckets:

$ aws s3 ls

09-11 23:41:43 thisisatestbucket