Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@magnetikonline
magnetikonline / README.md
Last active March 29, 2025 09:41
Install AWS CLI v2 from source.

Install AWS CLI v2 from source

Bash script to install the latest released version of the AWS CLI v2 from the distrubuted source.

Using this method to exectue the CLI under a MacBook M1 laptop as a native ARM binary - rather than falling back to Rosetta. Currently the offically packaged macOS .pkg doesn't support both Intel/M1 architectures.

Script designed to be re-run - will blow away an existing install and re-install the latest available version.

Note

This install script assumes you have installed a suitable version of Python 3 - has been tested against: