Question

ImportError: cannot import name 'API_KEY' from 'forwarder'

I successfully installed aws using pip install awscli --upgrade --user. However, when I'm trying to aws configure or aws --version, I'm getting the following error

from forwarder import API_KEY, OWNER_ID, WEBHOOK, IP_ADDRESS, URL, CERT_PATH, PORT, LOGGER, \
    updater, dispatcher

Answer 1

The AWS package in PyPI is not AWS's official CLI client but rather an older unmaintained library that used to interface with AWS and is now broken. AWS's official CLI client is awscli. Therefore if you pip install aws instead of pip install awscli you will run into the issue above.

The solution is to first run pip uninstall aws then run pip install awscli.