Running the Amazon CloudSearch Commands

All of the Amazon CloudSearch commands require that you specify your AWS credentials. The easiest way to do that is to set up an AWS credential file and set the AWS_CREDENTIAL_FILE environment variable as described in the installation instructions.

You can also explicitly specify your credentials with each request, either by using the --aws-credential-file option to specify the location of your credential file, or by specifying both the --access-key and --secret-key options.

For most commands, you must also specify the name of your search domain with the -d or --domain-name option. (The one exception is that you can invoke the cs-describe-domain command without specifying the --domain-name option to list information about all of your Amazon CloudSearch domains.)