Configure EC2 CLI Tools

If you haven’t done so already, configure the EC2 CLI tools. You can download the latest EC2 toolchain from here.
(It’s also available using homebrew “brew install ec2-api-tools”)
Now configure the environment variables:

export EC2_HOME=~/.ec2
export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin
export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=
export AWS_SECRET_KEY=

Note: The Java path cannot be a symlink. It must be the actual path to the java home.

Test the EC2 CLI tools by running:

ec2-describe-regions
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