
How to Install & Configure AWSCLI on macOS ?
Users using macOS can follow the below command and steps to install the latest version of AWS CLI.The user should have sudo access to execute the below command.
For the latest version of the AWS CLI, use the following command block:
$ curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2.pkg" -o "AWSCLIV2.pkg"
$ sudo installer -pkg AWSCLIV2.pkg -target /
Steps :
raghavendrakambhampati@RaghavendrasMBP ~ % curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2.pkg" -o "AWSCLIV2.pkg"
sudo installer -pkg AWSCLIV2.pkg -target /
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Password: < Enter your machine password for sudo access)
installer: Package name is AWS Command Line Interface
installer: Installing at base path /
installer: The install was successful.
To Validate if AWS CLI is installed properly, run the below commands:
raghavendrakambhampati@RaghavendrasMBP ~ % which aws
/usr/local/bin/aws
raghavendrakambhampati@RaghavendrasMBP ~ % aws --version
aws-cli/2.3.3 Python/3.8.8 Darwin/20.6.0 exe/x86_64 prompt/off
raghavendrakambhampati@RaghavendrasMBP ~ %
To Configure AWS CLI,run below command and enter your access key and secret access key which can be created in your AWS IAM User Account -> Select Security Credentials-> Click on Create Access Key and download those credentials and use in the below step.
raghavendrakambhampati@RaghavendrasMBP ~ % aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: ********** < Enter your Access Key >
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: ********** < Enter your Secret Access Key >
Default region name [None]: eu-west-2
Default output format [None]:
raghavendrakambhampati@RaghavendrasMBP ~ %