The Amazon EC2 API Tools are used to interface with most of the services of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, except with the creation instance-store backed AMIs, which the Amazon EC2 AMI Tools handles. This article discusses how to install the Amazon EC2 API Tools.

Here we talk about how to setup our security credentials to use the various command line tools used with AWS.

These are the prerequisites for installing AWS command line tools.

Parts in this series

• HowTo: Install AWS CLI
• HowTo: Install AWS CLI - Prerequisites
• HowTo: Install AWS CLI - Security Credentials
• HowTo: Install AWS CLI - AWS Command Line Interface
• HowTo: Install AWS CLI - Amazon Auto Scaling
• HowTo: Install AWS CLI - Amazon CloudFormation
• HowTo: Install AWS CLI - Amazon CloudFront
• HowTo: Install AWS CLI - Amazon CloudWatch
• HowTo: Install AWS CLI - Amazon ElastiCache
• HowTo: Install AWS CLI - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) - AMI Tools
• HowTo: Install AWS CLI - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) - API Tools
• HowTo: Install AWS CLI - Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
• HowTo: Install AWS CLI - Amazon Elastic MapReduce Ruby Client
• HowTo: Install AWS CLI - Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• HowTo: Install AWS CLI - Amazon Relational Data Services (RDS)
• HowTo: Install AWS CLI - Amazon Route 53 - cli53
• HowTo: Install AWS CLI - Amazon Route 53 - dnscurl.pl
• HowTo: Install AWS CLI - Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
• HowTo: Install AWS CLI - Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
• HowTo: Install AWS CLI - Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) - s3cmd
• HowTo: Install AWS CLI - Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) - s3curl.pl

Through this series we see how to install Java. In this article, we will look specifically at installing on Gentoo.