One day out of the blue I started having issues with the AWS CLI installed on my macOS Catalina (Version 10.15.4). Below is the error that I was getting when trying to access aws cli command:

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dyld: Library not loaded: @executable_path/../.Python
  Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/awscli/2.0.0/libexec/bin/python3.8
  Reason: image not found
[1]    16238 abort      aws --version

I tried searching for a solution for this and unfortunately, at the time of writing, I was not able to find an appropriate solution. If the same is happening with you then the solution is pretty straight forward. There are two ways you should be able to solve this:

Solution 1:

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brew update && brew upgrade

The easiest solution and the first one to try would be to run the commands above. This will update the home-brew and upgrade the installed software if applicable. If you run the command (that you were originally trying to run; which was was —version in my case), you should be able to see the result without any issues. If you still see the same error then you can follow solution 2 below.

Solution 2:

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brew uninstall awscli && brew install awscli

This will uninstall and re-install awscli package on your machine. If you run your original command now (“aws —version” in my case), you should be able to see the results.

Hope this helps :). Happy coding.