Set Up All Four Cloud CLIs (aws, az, gcloud, doctl)

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Clicking around the console is fine for the first hour and a liability after that — every real workflow eventually moves to the CLI or to an IaC tool that wraps the CLI's API surface. Getting all four installed, authenticated, and producing JSON you can pipe into jq is the on-ramp to everything else in this course.

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Install each CLI, authenticate, and make one read-only API call that proves the credential chain works end-to-end.

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Install all four CLIs and make every read-only smoke test return success — if any one fails, fix the credential before moving on, do not skip.
Run aws configure list and az account show and confirm the printed identity matches the email you signed up with — wrong identity here will cost you hours later.
Set a shell alias for each CLI's most common JSON-with-jq pattern (e.g. alias awsr='aws ec2 describe-regions --output json | jq') so you build muscle memory.

Set Up All Four Cloud CLIs (aws, az, gcloud, doctl)

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