Create Config File The config file needs to be created with your AWS credentials [default] aws_access_key_id = YourAwsAccesKey aws_secret_access_key = YourAwsSecretKey region = us-west-2 If application running as root save it to: "/root/.aws/config" Or if running as a user (pi) save it to: "/home/pi/.aws/config" Protect it chmod 600 /root/.aws/config chmod 600 /home/pi/.aws/config    

Amazon recomends using the pip package manager to install its awscli.  However we prefer to keep things simple and have all our packages installed with one package manager APT.   AWS states the awscli package is available in repositories for other package managers such as APT and yum, but it is not guaranteed to be the latest […]