Install and configure the Amazon RDS Command Line Tools

This guide was a great help for me - thanks!

Anonymous - Jun 2, 2010

This guide was a great help for me - thanks!

Thanks for the great giude. Really helped me get going.

Thanks - why Amazon don’t provide instructions this concise I have no idea!
Cheers

Thanks everybody, happy that you are finding this useful.

when I run rds —help I get an error “The sytem cannot find the path specified”.

The environmenta variables are set correctly.

I am getting a “The system cannot find the path specified” when I run “rds —help” in a CMD window. I have setup the variables exactly as desrcibed and checked the paths, on a Windows & laptop.

Any ideas were Im going wrong?

Is the RDS cli install location set on your PATH? if not have you changed dir to the install path - sorry about the back to basics approach?

yes the PATH system vaible is present “%AWS_RDS_HOME%\bin”. I can “dir %AWS_RDS_HOME%\bin ” to this location which shows me the directory listing as expected. I loaded CMD as an Administrator.

me too. in my xp windows is ok. but when i try to acess using win7 i get a error like ‘The sytem cannot find the path specified’, why ?

So frustrating… I get the “The sytem cannot find the path specified” on Win7 as well. Argh.