2 I am trying to check if aws cli is installed already, and install it if not present, I can't find any source on how to install it through PowerShell script

I had this same situation and was caused by the aws cli being originally installed via apt-get install awscli. Solution was to remove it first (apt-get remove awscli) and follow pip install answers below.

Jun 17, 2020 · Is it possible to install AWS CLI v2 through PIP on Windows? In the instructions the recommended way to install is via MSI, but I want to use PIP. What if I install CLI like given on …

Sep 4, 2017 · Thx again for your suggestion though, with some adjustments I got it to work. Install AWS CLI in docker container using below command:

aws-cli/2.1.39 Python/3.8.8 Windows/10 exe/AMD64 prompt/off As this method is a workaround, an feature request has been raised to be able to install awscli without admin rights:

Dec 31, 2019 · 11 The AWS CLI will come preinstalled on GitHub Actions environments. More information can be found in the actions/virtual-environments repository. In my case I needed the …

Feb 19, 2020 · For anybody who wants to just use the aws-cli without any hassle you can now install aws-cli v1 from the alpine package using. If you intended using aws-cli in a container without any …

Oct 18, 2022 · aws cli is a cmd tool , you need to install on your jenkins controller or agent where you execute aws help, or you use awscli docker image as your pipeline agent. I don't think aws jenkins …

The default value is /usr/local/aws-cli. --bin-dir or -b – This option specifies that the main aws program in the install directory is symbolically linked to the file aws in the specified path.

Thanks! This is the only way I was able to get aws to run on the command line. Doing a pip install allowed my access it from within python, but not as a standalone executable.