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Using powershell (no gui) how can I find out which version of AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell I'm using?

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I'm using powershell remoting and AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell to download a file from S3. I'm having trouble setting credentials, this aws powershell reference states that:

In versions of the Tools for Windows PowerShell that are older than 1.1, the Set-AWSCredentials command did not work correctly

But I don't know what version of AWS tools I'm using. There doesn't seem to be an obvious command to try, for example, the Read-S3Object command -Version parameter is used to determine the version of the S3 object being downloaded, not the version of the AWS tools.

It's possible I could figure it out by using RDP and the add/remove programs gui, but that's a different question, this server is suposed to be administered using powershell remoting only.

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You can inspect the module via Get-Module.

Get-Module -ListAvailable -Name AWSPowerShell Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\AWS Tools\PowerShell ModuleType Version Name ExportedCommands ---------- ------- ---- ---------------- Binary 3.1.75.0 AWSPowerShell {Clear-AWSHistory, Set-AWSHistoryConfiguration....
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For future reference, the AWS Tools for PowerShell themselves have a cmdlet to grab the cmdlet version, Get-AWSPowerShellVersion. This returns the version of both the installed module and the installed .NET SDK.

Example:

PS C:/> Get-AWSPowerShellVersion AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Version 3.1.95.0 Copyright 2012-2016 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved. Amazon Web Services SDK for .NET Core Runtime Version 3.1.10.0 Copyright 2009-2015 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved. Release notes: https://aws.amazon.com/releasenotes/PowerShell This software includes third party software subject to the following copyrights: - Logging from log4net, Apache License [http://logging.apache.org/log4net/license.html]

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