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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?

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?

…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

…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

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

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

…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

…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

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

…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

…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

…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

…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

…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

…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

…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”

…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”

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”

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”

…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

…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

…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

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

…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

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

…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

…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

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

…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

…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

…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

…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)