Installed AWS Tools for PowerShell on AWS CloudShell - AWS Tools for PowerShell (version 5)

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Installed AWS Tools for PowerShell on AWS CloudShell

AWS.Tools is pre-installed on AWS CloudShell as described in Pre-installed software in the AWS CloudShell User Guide. Since console credentials are automatically passed to CloudShell, a user with permissions to open CloudShell can immediately run Tools for PowerShell cmdlets without additional installation or configuration.

To use the AWS Tools for PowerShell on CloudShell, perform steps similar to the following:

  1. Open the CloudShell Console.

  2. Run pwsh.

  3. Run any AWS.Tools PowerShell commands you need such as Get-S3Bucket.