Linux AWS Command Line Interface Installation

How to Install AWS CLI in Linux

Posted November 02, 2020

While working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) it is essential to have command line utility installed on the machine to perform the administration or development activities. Below we will find steps for the AWS CLI Installation on Linux.

AWS CLI Installation Steps

Download the AWS CLI binary zip file awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip from the AWS website.
```
curl https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip
```
Login as root user on the Linux machine to perform the installation.
```
sudo su - root
```
Create directory where you want to extract above zip file.
```
mkdir /path/to/extract/binaries
```

Extract binaries with following command.

cd /path/to/extract/binaries
unzip awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip

Execute following command from the current working directory to perform the installation.
```
sudo ./aws/install
```
If you try to install binaries without root user then you would get following error.

mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/aws-cli’: Permission denied
AWS CLI will get installed inside default directory /usr/local/aws-cli.
AWS CLI may not be accessible to all users due to insufficient permissions. If you get below error while running aws cli despite of having /usr/local/ in user PATH then use below command to grant RWX to AWS CLI Binaries to let non root user access it.

aws: command not found
```
chmod -R 777 /usr/local/aws-cli/
```

Confirm the installation by checking version.

aws --version
aws-cli/2.0.28 Python/3.7.3 Linux/3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_64 botocore/2.0.0dev32

Conclusion

We learned how to install AWS CLI in Linux Machine. These steps will be common for all Linux distros like RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Raspbian etc.

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