Install AWS CLI on Linux

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This article explains how to install the AWS CLI on Ubuntu.

Reference

• Installing or updating to the latest version of the AWS CLI

Environment

• Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS

To install the AWS CLI, the unzip utility is required.
If it’s not already installed in your environment, run the following command:

$ sudo apt install unzip

Then, install the AWS CLI with the following commands:

$ curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
$ unzip awscliv2.zip
$ sudo ./aws/install

To verify the AWS CLI installation, run:

aws --version
aws-cli/2.27.55 Python/3.13.4 Linux/6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2 exe/x86_64.ubuntu.22

If if the AWS CLI version is displayed, the installation was successful.