Aug 7, 2023 1 min read aws

How to install AWS CLI with Homebrew

Here are the instructions for installing the AWS CLI with Homebrew on MacOS.

The official AWS docs for installing the AWS CLI does not have instructions for Homebrew, which is mind-boggling.

So, instead, here are the steps you can take to install the latest version of AWS CLI on your Mac with Homebrew.

brew update
brew install awscli

Once it's installed, you can verify it works with:

aws --version

And the output should be something like the following:

aws-cli/2.11.2 Python/3.11.2 Darwin/22.6.0 source/arm64 prompt/off