AWS CLI

aws is the cli that we use to interact with aws cloud from the command line

Releases

AWS keeps their CLI versions on their releases page:
https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/releases

Installation Instructions

Warning: the following install is pinned, see releases page for a newer version.

VERSION=2.2.25; curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2-${VERSION}.pkg" -o "AWSCLIV2.pkg"
sudo installer -pkg AWSCLIV2.pkg -target /

details: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/install-cliv2.html

Checking Your AWS CLI Version

aws --version

expected result: aws-cli/2.2.25 Python/3.8.8 Darwin/18.7.0 exe/x86_64 prompt/off