This action provides capability to run any of the AWS CLI commands using version 2 of the CLI tool.

- name: AWS CLI v2
  uses: imehedi/actions-awscli-v2@latest
  with:
    args: s3 ls

We are using the base image from AWS and simply providing a dockerised interface to the tool, we can perform activities within our repo as if we were using the tool locally.

aws s3 ls

The above then requires us to pass the credentials from GitHub secrets, which we can do as below:

- name: AWS CLI v2
  uses: imehedi/actions-awscli-v2@latest
  with:
      args: s3 ls
  env:
      AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
      AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
      AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: "eu-west-1"

###Materials for curious minds

• AWS CLI V2 Changelog
• How add secrets to repo?