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.. _ref-boto_commandline:
==================
Command Line Tools
==================
Introduction
============
Boto ships with a number of command line utilities, which are installed
when the package is installed. This guide outlines which ones are available
& what they do.
.. note::
If you're not already depending on these utilities, you may wish to check
out the AWS-CLI (http://aws.amazon.com/cli/ - `User Guide`_ &
`Reference Guide`_). It provides much wider & complete access to the
AWS services.
.. _`User Guide`: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-welcome.html
.. _`Reference Guide`: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/
The included utilities available are:
``asadmin``
Works with Autoscaling
``bundle_image``
Creates a bundled AMI in S3 based on a EC2 instance
``cfadmin``
Works with CloudFront & invalidations
``cq``
Works with SQS queues
``cwutil``
Works with CloudWatch
``dynamodb_dump``
``dynamodb_load``
Handle dumping/loading data from DynamoDB tables
``elbadmin``
Manages Elastic Load Balancer instances
``fetch_file``
Downloads an S3 key to disk
``glacier``
Lists vaults, jobs & uploads files to Glacier
``instance_events``
Lists all events for EC2 reservations
``kill_instance``
Kills a list of EC2 instances
``launch_instance``
Launches an EC2 instance
``list_instances``
Lists all of your EC2 instances
``lss3``
Lists what keys you have within a bucket in S3
``mturk``
Provides a number of facilities for interacting with Mechanical Turk
``pyami_sendmail``
Sends an email from the Pyami instance
``route53``
Interacts with the Route53 service
``s3put``
Uploads a directory or a specific file(s) to S3
``sdbadmin``
Allows for working with SimpleDB domains
``taskadmin``
A tool for working with the tasks in SimpleDB
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