Technically speaking, the CLI is a downloadable app you use to control AWS functions. That means for Windows users you will need to install and run the 32-bit or 64-bit version of the CLI.

The AWS CLI can also be installed on Windows via an MSI Installer. If you want to run the develop branch of the AWS CLI, see the Development Version section of the contributing guide.

Describe the bug The AWS CLI ignores attempts to use UTF-8 on Windows, this causes failures when interacting with the SecurityHub API as this is returning UTF characters that then fail encoding. This ...

AWS EC2 This tells PowerShell that the command isn't intended to be executed against the local Windows OS, but rather against the AWS cloud, and that whatever comes next is to be directed at the EC2 ...

Now you type: $ aws ec2 describe-instances Unfortunately, the similarities pretty much end there. Where with ec2-describe-instances you could just append a list of IDs, with AWS CLI, you need to use ...