title: How to deploy AWS Appconfig hosted configuration version via AWS CLI
body: <p>I have been following this document to create a hosted version in AppConfig via CLI.</p>
  <p>Issue :
  The <code>content</code> parameter in the aws command expects a strict type of <em>blob</em>. I want to upload a relative large yaml file of approx 40kB which is present in my code repo as the <code>content</code> which is of type blob.</p>
  <p>What would be the ideal way to convert this yaml file to base64 and add to the <code>content</code> param all via CLI?</p>
  <p>I manually tried to convert the yaml to base64 and add in the command but CLI couldn't handle that much data and didn't respond.</p>
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  <p>Note : Using Powershell in VSCode Windows</p>
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