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.

Output Format	Description
json	Output in JSON format (default)
text	Output in plain text format
table	Tabular output format.
yaml	YAML format output