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Installing AWS CLI on Mac

Recently I started exploring Amazon Web Services. Day by day I am becoming a big fan of cloud technologies. To start with, in this article I am posting a few steps which I did to setup Amazon Command Line Interface (AWS CLI). AWS CLI is a unified tool for managing  different AWS Services. With one tool we can control and manage services given by amazon. To explore more on controlling services through CLI, you can refer to you can refer to the documentation . In this article I'm gonna describe you the steps I've done to configure AWS CLI. To install, we need to have 'pip' a package manager for python. Installation Requirement For installing AWS CLI we need to have the following: Python 2 version 2.6.5+ or Python 3 version 3.3+. Windows, Linux, MAC or Unix. In my case I'm only configuring for MAC PC. Installing pip Download get-pip.py from this location.  Once you download get-pip.py, you need to run the script with following command. python get-pip.py.