passing access and secret key aws cli

Question

I am trying to embed access and secret key along with aws cli. e.g.

aws ec2 describe-instances --aws-access-key  --aws-secret-key 

        

Answer 1

I think the previous answers are correct, here is my response which is more like Danh response but also including multiple options and Windows too

Linux/Mac

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=your_key; export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=your_secret;  aws s3 ls 

Another way to skin a cat for Linux/Mac

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=your_key AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=your_secret aws s3 ls 

Windows Powershell

$Env:AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="your_key"
$Env:AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="your_secret"
aws s3 ls  

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