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 This container image provides the following AWS API client applications on `$PATH`:
  * `aws` cli tool
  * `s3cmd`
+ 
+## Example
+```
+docker run -v /root/.aws/:/root/.aws quay.io/coreos/awscli bash -c "aws ec2 describe-instances"
+```
+