AWS CLI $PATH Settings

Question

I am following the AWS CLI Setup guide. I have managed to successfully install the tool on my Mac OS X terminal with the following output:

Running cmd: /usr/bin/         


        

Answer 1

I ended up doing the same as Piotr and it's good to understand how to update your path without 3rd party software. However as 3rd party software goes Homebrew is pretty awesome and its a good thing to use it for keeping your dependency symlinks controlled in one place. de facto pkg mgr on mac.

Answer 2

Make sure python is installed globally, The steps are like this:

On AWS side:

Go to amazon AWS center -> Services -> Identity and Access Management (IAM) -> Users -> find your User and click on it -> pick Security Credentials tab -> create Access Key

Installation: On command line / bash

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

Optional: if aws version is not found yet ,set up the aws path on your bash profile.

vim ~/.bash_profile
#paste this line
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/aws

Configuration:(Final Step) Configure your credentials as following

aws configure

Fill in the properties you got from aws website and connect your account. attaching an example for this step.

AWS Access Key ID [None]: abcd

AWS Secret Access Key [None]: zyx123!@#

Default region> name [None]: us-east-1

Default output format [None]: json

Good Luck!

Answer 3

This worked for me (note: change 2.7 to your specific Python version):

export PATH=~/Library/Python/2.7/bin/:$PATH

You'll likely want to add this to the end of your .bash_profile using:

sudo nano ~/.bash_profile

Answer 4

I have used Homebrew to install AWS CLI and I am quite happy with the result. Simply type:

$ brew install awscli

after you have installed brew.

Note, on the AWS CLI installation page there is the following disclaimer:

The awscli package may be available in repositories for other package managers such as APT, yum and Homebrew, but it is not guaranteed to be the latest version.

That said, I have not found this to be a problem, the awscli.rb has been updated quite frequently to match the latest releases.

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Update: there is a GitHub issue that suggests that Homebrew should be added as an alternative in the AWS CLI installation instructions. This issue was later closed in favor of this UserVoice feature request.

Answer 5

I've just had the same error and I was able to solve it by adding the following line to my .bash_profile file:

export PATH=~/Library/Python/2.7/bin/:$PATH

Please check the version of Python as it may be slightly different on your system. This avoids adding your username folder to the .bash_profile file.

Answer 6

Here are the three steps to install AWS cli on mac OSX (curl or wget) The third step will set you path correctly

$ curl "https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cli/awscli-bundle.zip" -o "awscli-bundle.zip"
$ unzip awscli-bundle.zip
$ sudo ./awscli-bundle/install -i /usr/local/aws -b /usr/local/bin/aws

The other easiest way is to do using homebrew

brew install awscli

If you want the development version you can do

brew install awscli --HEAD