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AWS CLI M1 chip installation

Do we need AWS CLI to be build for M1 chip architecture? I feel like since its not compiling any code to be run on the system and rather it is just a way for the system to communicate with the AWS servers we wouldnt need it. Does my thinking make sense?

Solution

  • awscli is a python tool. You can install it like any other python package, and it works perfectly fine on m1.

    $ uname -sm
Darwin arm64
$ python --version --version  # twice gives more verbose version info
Python 3.9.13 (main, May 24 2022, 21:13:51)
[Clang 13.1.6 (clang-1316.0.21.2)]
$ pip install awscli
...lots of stuff...
$ aws --version
aws-cli/1.25.2 Python/3.9.13 Darwin/21.5.0 botocore/1.27.2