AWS

Perform actions on AWS using the command-line

See AWS CLI docs.

Install with a package manager

macOS

See AWSCLI formula on Homebrew.

$ brew install awscli

Linux

From Installing, updating, and uninstalling the AWS CLI version 2 on Linux doc.

$ curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
$ unzip awscliv2.zip
$ sudo ./aws/install

Install in a virtual environment

Install and run the AWS CLI in a new Python 3 virtual environment.

Installation

$ mkdir ~/.local/virtualenvs
$ python3 -m venv ~/.local/virtualenvs/aws
$ source ~/.local/virtualenvs/aws/bin/activate
$ pip install awscli

Usage

Note that even though the package is awscli on PyPI and your pip list output, you must invoke using aws command.

$ source ~/.local/virtualenvs/aws/bin/activate

$ aws --version

Help

$ aws help

AWS()                                                                    AWS()



NAME
       aws -

DESCRIPTION
       The  AWS  Command  Line  Interface is a unified tool to manage your AWS
       services.

SYNOPSIS
          aws [options] <command> <subcommand> [parameters]

       Use aws command help for information on a  specific  command.  Use  aws
       help  topics  to view a list of available help topics. The synopsis for
       each command shows its parameters and their usage. Optional  parameters
       are shown in square brackets.
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