Handy AWS CLI Install Script 🧾

Create a file in your WSL2 environment and paste this in:

#!/bin/bash

# Update the package list
sudo apt-get update

# Install the AWS CLI dependencies
sudo apt-get install -y unzip

# Download and install AWS CLI version 2
curl "https://d1vvhvl2y92vvt.cloudfront.net/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install

# Verify the installation
aws --version

# Clean up downloaded files
rm -rf awscliv2.zip
rm -rf aws

echo "AWS CLI installation completed."

set it as executable:

chmod +x install_aws_cli.sh

Then run it like so:

sudo ./install_aws_cli.sh

You should now have aws cli installed 😎