Summary

Recently we encountered the error on our aws cli with following error message. We have updated our systems and seems other things were working fine.

Error

An HTTP Client raised and unhandled exception: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument ‘ssl context’

Solution

To solve the above problem, we decided to remove the aws cli which we installed with pip command.

We install the aws cli by using the bundled zip file provide by aws itself. Do notice that when we use the awscli bundled file, it has its own pip script inside.

Install AWS CLI by using bundled installer

Download the awscli bundle installer file

curl "https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cli/awscli-bundle.zip" -o "awscli-bundle.zip"

Unzip the package

 unzip awscli-bundle.zip

You must have unzip package installed in your system. Most of the Linux distros has unzip package name called as unzip itself.

Install aws cli.

sudo ./awscli-bundle/install -i /usr/local/aws -b /usr/local/bin/aws

Note:You can get more help parametere by using this command. ./awscli-bundle/install -h

Install AWS Cli using bundle installer to user home directory

In case,you want to install the aws cli only to a specific user home dir and make it available to only that user. This method is useful when user do not have sudo privileges too.

Login with the user id and run the following command

curl "https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cli/awscli-bundle.zip" -o "awscli-bundle.zip"
unzip awscli-bundle.zip
./awscli-bundle/install -b ~/bin/aws

Then run this command.

export PATH=~/bin:$PATH

You can add or update above PATH variable in .bashrc for applying it permanently.