Installing AWS command-line tools

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The below steps are for installing updated AWS CLI version 2 on CentOS

1. Ensure that following packages are installed

   dnf install less glibc groff-base unzip curl

2. Download latest AWS CLI version using:

   curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"

3. Unzip and install awscli

   unzip awscliv2.zip
   ./aws/install   #As root user

4. Check installed version

   aws --version

5. Configure installed awscli with AWS access key ID, secret key, region, etc. using:

   aws configure

6. Test the configuration with some command such as:

   aws s3 ls
   aws lightsail get-instances | grep -C1 arn | grep -i name

Refer:

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/install-cliv2-linux.html

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