Cloud Platforms

How to Log In to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud from the Command Line Most cloud work starts with a simple question: am I logged in to the right cloud account, subscription, project, and region? This becomes even more important when you work across multiple environments such as commercial cloud, government cloud, development, staging, and production. This article shows a practical command-line login flow for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The commands use placeholders so you can adapt them to your own organization without exposing account IDs, subscription IDs, usernames, SSO endpoints, or private profile names. Before You Start Install the cloud CLI you need: AWS CLI, Azure CLI, or Google Cloud CLI. Confirm your organization’s authentication method, such as SSO, SAML, MFA, service principal, managed identity, or federated identity. Know which account, subscription, project, and region you are supposed to use. Avoid storing passwords, access keys, subscripti...