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Amazon Web Services - Useful CLI commands¶

Route 53¶

Update a Route 53 record to the public IP address¶

$ aws route53 change-resource-record-sets --hosted-zone-id HOSTEDZONEID --change-batch "{\"Changes\":[{\"Action\":\"UPSERT\",\"ResourceRecordSet\":{\"Name\":\"server.example.com.\",\"Type\":\"A\",\"TTL\":60,\"ResourceRecords\":[{\"Value\":\"$(curl -s http://checkip.amazonaws.com)\"}]}}]}"

Cloudfront¶

Find a distribution for an alias¶

$ aws cloudfront list-distributions \
    --query "DistributionList.Items[*].{id:Id,alias:Aliases.Items[*]}[?contains(alias,'www.massyn.net')].id" \
    --output text