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

When using sudo pip install --upgrade awscli I got the following error:

ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/lib'

By using sudo with -H option, I could fix the problem.

sudo -H pip install --upgrade awscli

Answer 2

We can follow the below commands to install AWS CLI on UBUNTU:

sudo apt install curl

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

unzip awscli-bundle.zip

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

rm -rf awscli-bundle.zip awscli-bundle

To test: aws — version

For More Info :

https://gurudathbn.wordpress.com/2018/03/31/installing-aws-cli-on-ubuntu/

Answer 3

Simple use sudo pip install awscli --force-reinstall --upgrade

This will upgrade all the required modules.

Answer 4

For Ubuntu 16.04 I used parts of the other answers and comments and just reloaded bash instead of rebooting.

I installed the aws-cli using apt so I removed that first:

sudo apt-get remove awscli

Then I could pip install (I chose to use sudo to install globally with pip2):

sudo pip install -U awscli

Since I was doing this on a server I didn't want to reboot it, but reloading bash did the trick:

source ~/.bashrc

At this point I could use the new version of aws cli

aws --version

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

Currently, using pip will get you the old version of awscli, 1.18.103.

The latest version of aws-cli, 2.0.33 is on the v2 branch. You can download the installer for Linux, Windows and macOS from here.