How to Install AWS CLI on Ubuntu 20.04/18.04/16.04 LTS

In this article, We are going to perform How to Install AWS CLI on Ubuntu 16.04/18.04/20.04 LTS, Installing AWS CLI using Bundled Installer, How to Install AWS CLI using APT on Ubuntu,How to Install AWS CLI using Python PIP and Uninstall AWS CLI from Ubuntu.

Introduction

AWS CLI (Command Line Interface) is a tool by AWS which is used to manage AWS Resources.

Prerequisites

• Ubuntu 18.04/18.04/20.04 LTS with minimal installation

• SSH Access with admin privileges

• Python 2+ OR Python 3+ Version

Method #1: Installing AWS CLI using Bundled Installer

Download the aws cli bundle using below command

 sudo curl https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cli/awscli-bundle.zip -o awscli-bundle.zip 

Install the unzip and python on Ubuntu if not installed

 sudo apt install unzip python

Extract the aws cli bundle setup

 sudo unzip awscli-bundle.zip 

Configure the AWS CLI on Ubuntu

sudo ./awscli-bundle/install -i /usr/local/aws -b /usr/local/bin/aws

Verify the AWS CLI version

aws --version

Output:

aws-cli/1.18.97 Python/2.7.18rc1 Linux/5.4.0-1015-aws botocore/1.17.20

Method #2: How to Install AWS CLI on Ubuntu using APT

First update the System packages

sudo apt-get update

Install the AWS CLI using below command, Press “Y” then “Enter“.

sudo apt-get install awscli

once installed check the AWS CLI version using below command

aws --version

Output:

aws-cli/1.18.69 Python/3.8.5 Linux/5.4.0-1037-aws botocore/1.16.19

Method #3: How to Install AWS CLI using Python PIP

We can Install AWS CLI using Python 2.x and Python 3.x.

Install AWS CLI using Python 2.x PIP

on Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 LTS

sudo apt-get install python-pip

on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

on Ubuntu 20.04 Python 2 is not supported.

Install AWS CLI using using PIP

pip install awscli --upgrade --user

Check the AWS CLI using Python 2.x PIP

python -m awscli --version

Install AWS CLI using Python 3.x PIP on Ubuntu

Update the system packages

sudo apt update

Install Python 3 pip on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

sudo apt -y install python3-pip

Upgrade the PIP to latest version

sudo pip3 install --upgrade pip

Install the AWS CLI using PIP

sudo pip3 install awscli

To check AWS CLI version using python 3

python3 -m awscli --version

Output:

aws-cli/1.19.12 Python/3.8.5 Linux/5.4.0-1037-aws botocore/1.20.12

Configure AWS CLI

To connect AWS using CLI we have configure AWS user using below command

aws configure

it will ask AWS Access Key ID, AWS Secret Access Key, Default region name, Default output format

AWS Access Key ID [None]: *********7G
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: ***********************px
Default region name [None]: ap-south-1
Default output format [None]: json

Now you have connected your aws account using AWS CLI.

Uninstall AWS CLI from Ubuntu

Check the AWS CLI Installation path

which aws

Output:

/usr/local/bin/aws

Check the symlink and installation directory path

ls -l /usr/local/bin/aws

Output:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 815 Feb 22 08:00 /usr/local/bin/aws

Remove the Installation directory

sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/aws

Conclusion:

We have covered How to Install AWS CLI on Ubuntu, Installing AWS CLI using Bundled Installer, How to Install AWS CLI using APT on Ubuntu,How to Install AWS CLI using Python PIP and Uninstall AWS CLI from Ubuntu.

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Reference:

AWS Official Page