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Using AWSCLI on Ubuntu/Ubuntu-in-WSL

This is a brief note to myself (but might be useful to you)!

awscli (similar to the Azure az command) is packaged for Ubuntu, but the version which is in the Ubuntu 18.04 repositories is “out of date” and won’t work with AWS. You *actually* need to run the following:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install python3-pip -y && sudo -H pip3 install --upgrade awscli

If you’ve unfortunately already installed awscli from apt, do the following:

sudo apt remove awscli -y

Then, logout (for some reason, binary path caching is a thing now?) and log back in, and then run the above pip install line.

Solution found via this logged issue on the awscli git repo.

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