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2. Intro to Pulumi
3. Cloud Providers
4. AWS

AWS

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) provider for Pulumi can be used to provision any of the cloud resources available in AWS. The AWS provider must be configured with credentials to deploy and update resources in AWS.

See the full API documentation for complete details of the available AWS provider APIs.

Additionally, higher-level libraries offering simpler interfaces and higher-productivity APIs for many areas of AWS are available in the awsx and eks packages.

Setup

The AWS provider supports several options for providing access to AWS credentials. See AWS setup page for details.

Getting Started

The quickest way to get started with AWS is to follow the Get Started guide.

Additionally, there are several tutorials available to follow:

• Containers on ECS “Fargate”: Deploy containers to Amazon
• EC2 Linux WebServer VM: Create an EC2 Linux Web Server virtual machine
• Serverless REST API Gateways using Lambda: Create simple RESTful web server using AWS Lambdas
• Serve a Static Website from S3: Serve a static website out of content in an S3 bucket
• Serverless + Containers + Infrastructure: Deploy a complete application using a combination of buckets, serverless functions and containers.

In addition to the tutorials, several interesting examples are available complete with instructions:

• Ruby on Rails in EC2: Run a Ruby on Rails WebServer using EC2 instances
• SQS-Triggered Lambdas: Post to Slack using a Lambda anytime a SQS message arrives
• Static Website in CloudFront and S3: Create a static website serving content out of S3, fronted by a CloudFront CDN
• Provision an Elastic Kubernetes Service Cluster: Stand up a managed EKS cluster

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Example

const aws = require("@pulumi/aws");

const bucket = new aws.s3.Bucket("mybucket");

You can find additional examples of using AWS in the Pulumi examples repo.

Libraries

The following packages are available in package managers:

• JavaScript/TypeScript: @pulumi/aws
• Python: pulumi-aws
• Go: github.com/pulumi/pulumi-aws/sdk/go/aws
• .NET: Pulumi.Aws

The AWS provider is open source and available in the pulumi/pulumi-aws repo.

Configuration

The AWS provider accepts the following configuration settings. These can be provided to the default AWS provider via pulumi config set aws:<option>, or passed to the constructor of new aws.Provider to construct a specific instance of the AWS provider.

• region: (Required) The region where AWS operations will take place. Examples are us-east-1, us-west-2, etc.
• accessKey: (Optional) The access key for API operations. You can retrieve this from the ‘Security & Credentials’ section of the AWS console.
• dynamodbEndpoint: (Optional) Use this to override the default endpoint URL constructed from the region. It’s typically used to connect to dynamodb-local.
• insecure: (Optional) Explicitly allow the provider to perform “insecure” SSL requests. If omitted, the default value is false.
• kinesisEndpoint: (Optional) Use this to override the default endpoint URL constructed from the region. It’s typically used to connect to kinesalite.
• maxRetries: (Optional) The maximum number of times an AWS API request is being executed. If the API request still fails, an error is thrown.
• profile: (Optional) The profile for API operations. If not set, the default profile created with aws configure will be used.
• s3ForcePathStyle: (Optional) Set this to true to force the request to use path-style addressing, i.e., http://s3.amazonaws.com/BUCKET/KEY. By default, the S3 client will use virtual hosted bucket addressing when possible (http://BUCKET.s3.amazonaws.com/KEY). Specific to the Amazon S3 service.
• secretKey: (Optional) The secret key for API operations. You can retrieve this from the ‘Security & Credentials’ section of the AWS console.
• sharedCredentialsFile: (Optional) The path to the shared credentials file. If not set this defaults to ~/.aws/credentials.
• skipCredentialsValidation: (Optional) Skip the credentials validation via STS API. Used for AWS API implementations that do not have STS available/implemented.
• skipGetEc2Platforms: (Optional) Skip getting the supported EC2 platforms. Used by users that don’t have ec2:DescribeAccountAttributes permissions.
• skipMetadataApiCheck: (Optional) Skip the AWS Metadata API check. Useful for AWS API implementations that do not have a metadata API endpoint. Setting to true prevents Terraform from authenticating via the Metadata API. You may need to use other authentication methods like static credentials, configuration variables, or environment variables.
• skipRegionValidation: (Optional) Skip static validation of region name. Used by users of alternative AWS-like APIs or users w/ access to regions that are not public (yet).
• skipRequestingAccountId: (Optional) Skip requesting the account ID. Used for AWS API implementations that do not have IAM/STS API and/or metadata API.
• token: (Optional) Use this to set an MFA token. It can also be sourced from the AWS_SESSION_TOKEN environment variable.