How to get AWS command line interface to work in cygwin

Question

I installed the AWS command line interface on my Windows 7 box, and it worked immediately when I called commands from a DOS shell.

But DOS, the worst language ever i

Answer 1

In my case, I had to:

# Run Cygwin64 Terminal by right-clicking on the icon and selecting "Run as Administrator"
pip3.7 install awscli
aws configure

Once my AWS credentials had been configured I could run awscli commands on Cygwin where the latter had been launched normally, i.e. as a non-Administrator user.

Earlier I attempted the same steps but I launched Cygwin as non-Adminstrator and the awscli installation through pip didn't take. I didn't save the error messages, unfortunately.