Create a Virtual Environment for your project mkdir $HOME/py36venv python3 -m venv $HOME/py36venv Activate 3.6 virtual Environment source $HOME/py36venv/bin/activate Install AWS Commandline pip install awscli chmod 755 $HOME/py36venv/bin/aws aws --version aws configure AWS Access Key ID [None]: ---------------------- AWS Secret Access Key [None]: ----+----+--------------- Default region name [None]: us-east-2 Default output format [None]: aws s3 ls aws s3 sync local_dir/ s3://my-s3-bucket aws s3 sync s3://my-s3-bucket local_dir/