
Command Line Tools
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Introduction
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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.

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
