Watch out the CLI has two modes of operation

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Last Updated: 2024-11-21

Watch out, the CLI has two modes of operation

Often I try a command-line command for AWS and they fail.

The reason is because aws cli has two modes. E.g. with the s3 service you can choose between:

  1. aws s3 CMD
  2. aws s3api CMD

The latter has far more commands and is often what you want if the first fails