Instructions for installing and using the AWS command line (awscli) on CentOS

Thing you want to do

• I want to be able to use the AWS command line (awscli) https://aws.amazon.com/jp/cli/ on CentOS.

Premise

• CentOS is installed and SSH connection is established with root privileges.
• The curl command can be executed.

Before installation

You cannot use the aws command. When you hit aws

bash: aws: command not found

Is displayed.

Installation method

In any directory, execute the following with root privileges.

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

You can now run: /usr/local/bin/aws --version

Is displayed, the installation is successful. You can check the version by hitting as follows.

aws --version
aws-cli/2.1.1 Python/3.7.3 Linux/3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64 exe/x86_64.centos.7