How to install AWS CLI tools using pip

AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is a set of tools to manage your AWS infrastructure from the terminal or command prompt. It's written in Python and is available as a pip package, though some platforms provide their own installation packages.

pip package of the AWS CLI is officially maintained by AWS and is, therefore, the most up-to-date. The downside is that you need Python and pip installed, which not everyone might prefer.

1. Install pip for your system.

   Related: How to install pip on Ubuntu and Debian
   Related: How to install pip on CentOS / Red Hat / Fedora

2. Launch terminal or command prompt.
3. Install awscli package using pip.

   $ python3 -m pip install awscli
     Collecting awscli
     Downloading awscli-1.21.12-py3-none-any.whl (3.7 MB)
        |████████████████████████████████| 3.7 MB 4.3 MB/s 
   Collecting rsa<4.8,>=3.1.2
     Downloading rsa-4.7.2-py3-none-any.whl (34 kB)
   Collecting docutils<0.16,>=0.10
     Downloading docutils-0.15.2-py3-none-any.whl (547 kB)
        |████████████████████████████████| 547 kB 856 kB/s 
   Collecting colorama<0.4.4,>=0.2.5
     Downloading colorama-0.4.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (15 kB)
   Collecting s3transfer<0.6.0,>=0.5.0
     Downloading s3transfer-0.5.0-py3-none-any.whl (79 kB)
        |████████████████████████████████| 79 kB 2.5 MB/s 
   ##### snipped

4. Configure AWS CLI to start using.

   Related: How to configure AWS CLI tool