The AWS CLI is an open source tool that provides commands for interacting with AWS services.
pyenv is Python Version Management. pyenv lets you easily switch multiple versions of python
See https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv
virtualenv is a tool to create isolated Python environments.
See https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/
Install virtualenv if you have not installed
pip install --user virtualenv
If you have installed virtualenv
pyenv virtualenv
See list of virtual envs
pyenv virtualenvs
Install awscli using pyenv and virtualenv.
# create a virtualenv
pyenv virtualenv 3.5.1 awscli
# activate the virtualenv
pyenv activate awscli
And then install awscli
pip install --upgrade awscli
Check
$ aws --version
aws-cli/1.16.43 Python/3.5.1 Darwin/16.7.0 botocore/1.12.33
References:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/awscli-install-virtualenv.html