Manage EC2 KeyPairs with the AWS CLI

Create a Key Pair

The below will create a keypair and save it to your SSH folder.

aws ec2 create-key-pair --profile "<profile>" --region "<region>" --query "KeyMaterial" --output "text" --key-name "<key_name>" > ~/.ssh/<key_name>

Delete a Key Pair

aws ec2 create-key-pair --profile "<profile>" --region "<region>" --key-name "<key_name>"

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