The AWS command line client allows you to create, modify and manage your Amazon Web Services from your local terminal.

If you're on a Mac and you'd prefer to install AWS command-line using a package manager such as Homebrew, read this tutorial.

This document will describe how to install AWSCli manually.

Step 1 - Getting started

Make sure Python is installed. If you get a response, then you're good.

python --version

Step 2 - Install AWS Client

Download AWS Client using curl

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

Unpack it

unzip awscli-bundle.zip

Install it

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

Double check your work

aws --version

Read this tutorial to learn how to create AWS credentials on your local machine using awscli.