Python and PIP

To run the AWS command-line tools (awscli), we will need python3 present on our machine.

It may be present already, you can verify that using the command:

$ python3 --version  

If the output is command not found, the fastest way of installing it will be using the package manager you have on your system, such as apt on Debian/Ubuntu, yum on Fedora, or Homebrew on macOS. If you work on macOS and do not have Homebrew installed, I highly recommend doing so; it's a wonderful tool that gives you the possibility to easily install thousands of packages together with all the needed dependencies. Homebrew is available freely at https://brew.sh/. To install it, execute the following:

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" ...

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