AWS Cli Setup on Macbook with M1 chipset

AWS Cli Setup

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Setting up AWS CLI on Mac book with M1 chipset

  1. For reference visit the official aws cli setup documentation webpage.
  2. navigate to https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html to obtain the latest package
  3. Download the .pkg file
  4. Double click on the downloaded file. A UI installer will open and then follow the requied steps.
  5. After the complition, go to terminal and enter the command aws. This should return the following:
usage: aws [options] <command> <subcommand> [<subcommand> ...] [parameters]
To see help text, you can run:

  aws help
  aws <command> help
  aws <command> <subcommand> help

aws: error: the following arguments are required: command

This suggests successful installation of AWS CLI.

  1. Check the version using command aws --version.
aws-cli/2.5.8 Python/3.9.11 Darwin/21.3.0 exe/x86_64 prompt/off
  1. Configure the aws cli using command aws configure. More details can be found here - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-quickstart.html
  2. Enter the credentials and then you are all set to use aws cli.