AWS Lightsail Instance in CLI

Question

I am deploying my first LAMP web app on amazon lightsail using the CLI. I am using windows powershell to interact with CLI. I am attempting to setup an SSH key before creating my instance as the exercise recommends. When I do here is what happens. I can't seem to get past this. Any advice would be appreciated...

aws lightsail create-key-pair \
>>     --key-pair-name LightsailGuide > ssh_key_response.json
>>
>> cat ssh_key_response.json | jq -r '.publicKeyBase64' > lightsailguide.pub
>> cat ssh_key_response.json | jq -r '.privateKeyBase64' > lightsailguide
>> chmod 400 lightsailguide.pub lightsailguide
********At line:2 char:7
+     --key-pair-name LightsailGuide > ssh_key_response.json
+       ~
Missing expression after unary operator '--'.
At line:2 char:7
+     --key-pair-name LightsailGuide > ssh_key_response.json
+       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unexpected token 'key-pair-name' in expression or statement.
    + CategoryInfo          : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MissingExpressionAfterOperator********

Answer

Hi , I understand you are trying to setup an SSH key before creating an instance and you are getting an error.Please correct me if I misunderstood.

I replicated this on my end following AWS [documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/lightsail/create-key-pair.html), using the following command:
```
aws lightsail create-key-pair \
    --key-pair-name MyPersonalKeyPair
```
and I got a similar error. However, when I removed the backslash and make the one line command. I was able to create a new key-pair. This is how I did it:

1.  [Installed](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html) and [configured](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-quickstart.html#cli-configure-quickstart-creds-create) AWS CLI.
3. I then created my SSH key with the following command on my powershell
```
aws lightsail create-key-pair --key-pair-name MyPersonalKeyPair > Karabo.json
```
You can verify that your key was created by going to the [Lightsail console](https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/webapp/home/instances) then click accounts. Go to SSH keys, your newly created key-pair will be on the list.

I hope this will be helpful!

AWS Lightsail Instance in CLI

Relevanter Inhalt