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Common Options for CloudFormation CLI Tools
Many CLI tools described in this section accept optional parameters described in this topic. For details, see
the reference page for the tool you are using, or type toolname --help
- --aws-credential-file
VALUE Location of the file with your AWS credentials. This value can be set automatically by using the environment variable 'AWS_CREDENTIAL_FILE'.
- --connection-timeout
VALUE Specify a connection timeout
VALUE(in seconds). The default value is '30'.- --delimiter
VALUE Specify the delimiter to use when displaying delimited (long) results.
- --headers
If you are displaying tabular or delimited results, it includes the column headers. If you are showing xml results, it returns the HTTP headers from the service request, if applicable. This setting is off by default.
- -I, --access-key-id
VALUE Specify
VALUEas the AWS Access ID to use.- -K, --ec2-private-key-file-path
VALUE The private key file path. This value can be set automatically by using the environment variable 'EC2_PRIVATE_KEY'.
- --region
VALUE Specify region
VALUEas the web service region to use. This value can be set by using the environment variable 'EC2_REGION'.- -S, --secret-key
VALUE Specify
VALUEas the AWS Secret Key to use.- --show-empty-fields
Show empty fields and rows, using a "(nil)" value. The default is to suppress empty fields or columns.
- --show-request
Displays the URL the tools used to call the AWS Service. The default value is 'false'.
- --show-table, --show-long, --show-xml, --quiet
Specify how the results are displayed: tabular, delimited (long), xml, or no output (quiet). Tabular shows a subset of the data in fixed column-width form, while long shows all of the returned values delimited by a character. The xml is the raw return from the service, while quiet suppresses all standard output. The default is tabular, or 'show-table'.
- -U, --url
VALUE This option will override the URL for the service call with
VALUE. This value can be set by using the environment variable 'AWS_CLOUDFORMATION_URL'.
