AWS CLI Change Default Output Format

By default the output from an AWS CLI Command is in a JSON format, if you did make use of the aws configure command to set a default output value and you want to change it again, well you can do it in a couple of ways.

Option 1: Using "aws configure set" Command

% aws configure set output table

Option 2: Using "aws configure" Command

When you run the "aws configure" command again, you can change the default output value.

% aws configure

AWS Access Key ID [****************H7NS]: 
AWS Secret Access Key [****************hwSd]: 
Default region name [us-east-2]: 
Default output format [table]: json

Option 3: Manually editing the config file.

% nano ~/.aws/config

[default]
region = us-east-2
output = yaml

Note: You can choose from the below output format options.