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Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services

39 mentions on Hacker News by 36 people: 7 stories, 32 comments · first 2012-12-22 · latest 2025-09-03

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  1. but, hey, at least they get to be ultimately dynamic, leading to horeshit like this https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/2.28.22/awscli/botocore/... What does `create_client` return?! don't you worry your pretty head about it, it'll be…
    comment by mdaniel · 2025-09-03 · in Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?
  2. I believe they're discussing that awscli was targeting Python 2.x for the longest time, e.g. https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/0.4.1/setup.py#L48 up through https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/1.19.112/setup.py#L64 from 4 years ago,…
    comment by mdaniel · 2025-09-03 · in Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?
  3. …have specialized hostnames for IPv6 control plane endpoints, because AAAA records scare the olds https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/2.28.14/awscli/botocore/...
    comment by mdaniel · 2025-08-21 · in AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong
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    AWS S3 sync does not sync all the files
    story by pera · 2025-04-01 · 2 comments
  5. …ub.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/blob/release-2025-01-15... > < https://github.com/boto/boto3/issues/4392 > < https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/1.37.0/CHANGELOG.rst#L19 > < https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/2.23.0/CHANGELOG.rst#223... > <…
    comment by dougb · 2025-02-20 · in AWS S3 SDK breaks its compatible services
  6. I agree it's confusing and I think Amazon's reasons for dropping PyPI support are pretty lame: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/4947#issuecomment-5860... They also have't provided a reason for why they don't distribute via Homebrew:…
    comment by js2 · 2023-11-10 · in AWS to start charging for IPv4 usage, but critical services don't support IPv6
  7. And chaos ensued. Unable to install aws-cli via pip: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/8036
    comment by navels · 2023-07-18 · in Cython 3.0 Released
  8. …https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/awscli#default that is 2.12.1, which correctly is the most current ( https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/tags )
    comment by mdaniel · 2023-06-19 · in My First Impressions of Nix
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    It is not possible to install ARM64 AWS CLI
    story by datadeft · 2023-06-15 · 0 comments
  10. …only added in 2019[1][2]. [1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/iam-roles-f... [2] https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/releases/tag/1.16.232
    comment by GauntletWizard · 2023-04-07 · in What happens when you leak AWS credentials and how AWS minimizes the damage
  11. AFAIK it's still a Python package: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/tree/2.11.6
    comment by yandie · 2023-03-27 · in AWS Announces Open Source Mountpoint for Amazon S3
  12. …ps://github.com/jmespath-community/jmespath.spec ), but it seems unlikely to be used by the aws cli ( https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/7396 ). Although, for that matter jq is semi-abandoned itself.
    comment by thayne · 2023-02-05 · in yq: command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV and properties processor
  13. …be. There is a very nice comment talking through some of the reasoning here that is worth a read: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/4947#issuecomment-5860... I am quite annoyed v2 isn't in PyPI as it makes updating to v2 a sizable…
    comment by znep · 2021-12-05 · in Common Infrastructure Errors I've Made
  14. ▲ 1
    Ask HN: What unexpected behaviors persist in software you use?
    story by justin_oaks · 2021-12-01 · 5 comments
  15. …people that they're "safe" is actually a massive disservice. [1] https://snapcraft.io/aws-cli [2] https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/5142
    comment by 015a · 2021-10-22 · in Kubernetes ingress-nginx controller vulnerability
  16. …of different level of technical expertise/maturity. (Btw, the previous comment was in reference to: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/4947 )
    comment by whummer · 2021-10-10 · in Localstack – Local AWS Emulator
  17. …still doesn't support Yubikeys Thanks, but you cannot[0] use hardware keys on the terminal. [0] https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/3607
    comment by twistedpair · 2021-09-24 · in AWS SIGv4 and SIGv4A – How AWS signs and verifies API requests
  18. …for generating short-term keys (which aws-vault uses) only supports TOTP, not FIDO/U2F/WebAuthn. https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/3607
    comment by drodgers · 2021-09-24 · in AWS SIGv4 and SIGv4A – How AWS signs and verifies API requests
  19. …perfectly reasonable and explains in detail a good number of reasons why they aren't using pip: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/4947#issuecomment-5860...
    comment by res0nat0r · 2021-07-30 · in “We do not plan to publish the AWS CLI project to PyPI at this time”
  20. …out of a business report. Its not surprising that this manager has posted only 1 update in May. https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/6186 . The update ends with basically we fight fires first and dev second, there are always more fires,…
    comment by ipsocannibal · 2021-07-30 · in “We do not plan to publish the AWS CLI project to PyPI at this time”
  21. Should also be able to do pipx install https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/archive/refs/tags/2.2.24.zip which can often be a lot faster.
    comment by justinsaccount · 2021-07-30 · in “We do not plan to publish the AWS CLI project to PyPI at this time”
  22. 1.20.x is there: https://pypi.org/project/awscli/ Anyway, i can just pipx install git+https://github.com/aws/aws-cli@2.2.24 and keep moving. Whatever.
    comment by hprotagonist · 2021-07-29 · in “We do not plan to publish the AWS CLI project to PyPI at this time”
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    “We do not plan to publish the AWS CLI project to PyPI at this time”
    story by lambdadmitry · 2021-07-29 · 41 comments
  24. …both download and upload. There is even a setting to tweak the number of parallel requests [2]. [1] https://github.com/aws/aws-cli [2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/credref/latest/refdocs/setting-s... Edit: didn't know about s5cmd (from…
    comment by ggregoire · 2021-04-11 · in Downloading files from S3 with multithreading and Boto3
  25. …went wrong" and nevertheless the end result is a confusing mess of inheritance and objects. [1]: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/45b0063b2d0b245b17a57fd9...
    comment by ben509 · 2021-04-11 · in Downloading files from S3 with multithreading and Boto3
  26. …possible to create objects in S3 or items in DynamoDB without custom CloudFormation resources. [1]: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/3607 [2]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui... [3]:…
    comment by Dunedan · 2020-11-15 · in Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails
  27. Just added the ability to hit the /summary endpoint with a GET request. If you want to make a shareable link, use: https://thumbsup.bugout.dev/summary?url=<issue or question url> For example: https://thumbsup.bugout.dev/summary?url=https://…
    comment by zomglings · 2020-06-02 · in Show HN: Thumbsup – Quickly summarize GitHub issues and Stack Overflow questions
  28. …date is an important use case, why not create keys in the format of YYYYMMDD? Or just use the CLI. https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/2095
    comment by scarface74 · 2020-02-04 · in Behind Amazon’s HQ2 fiasco
  29. Looked up the issue and it was cloud-init, not apt that failed. Here are the details: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/3678 In one sentence: "Installing the latest aws-cli on an image is preventing new AMIs based on that image from…
    comment by viraptor · 2020-01-29 · in Alpine makes Python Docker builds slower, and images larger
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    When AWS software development imitates xkcd
    story by Leon · 2018-02-15 · 0 comments
  31. …it doesn't do this for encodings. Fortunately, there is a way to specify it by hand [1]. [1]: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/1346#issuecomment-3332... Should be fixed now. > And after looking at that on the website, that is a very…
    comment by ken · 2017-12-14 · in Show HN: Hiding code from Git diff
  32. …Cloud SDK(which includes CLIs like gcloud, gsutil, bq, etc.)[2] are also written in Python. [1]: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli [2]: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/
    comment by devy · 2016-09-27 · in Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 Preview
  33. Where are you seeing that? I only see a reference to https://github.com/aws/aws-cli
    comment by martin_ · 2015-12-29 · in AWS Shell – An integrated shell for working with the AWS CLI
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    Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services
    story by hebz0rl · 2013-09-04 · 0 comments
  35. …option to the s3 sync command in AWS CLI. Feel free to create an issue on our github site https://github.com/aws/aws-cli so we can track that.
    comment by garnaat · 2013-09-04 · in The New AWS Command-Line Interface
  36. …git users • no glacier support • no s3 progress for downloads or uploads • many jarring UX issues https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/305 https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/304
    comment by hendry · 2013-09-04 · in The New AWS Command-Line Interface
  37. …tools use under the hood. [1] https://github.com/garnaat [2] https://github.com/boto/botocore [3] https://github.com/aws/aws-cli
    comment by mafro · 2013-09-04 · in The New AWS Command-Line Interface
  38. …botocore[1]. It's listed in the requirements file[2] 1: https://github.com/boto/botocore 2: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/develop/requirements.txt
    comment by yRetsyM · 2012-12-22 · in Introducing the AWS Command Line Interface (Developer Preview)
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    AWS Command Line Interface
    story by aaronpk · 2012-12-22 · 0 comments