How to upgrade AWS CLI to the latest version?

Question

I recently noticed that I am running an old version of AWS CLI that is lacking some functionality I need:

$aws --version
aws-cli/1.2.9 Python/3.4.3 Linux/3.1         


        

Answer 1

On Mac you can use homebrew:

to install: brew install awscli

to upgrade: brew upgrade awscli

Make sure you don't have multiple installations: where aws