How to install AWS authenticator | Install aws-iam-authenticator in Linux EC2

Download the Amazon EKS-vended aws-iam-authenticator binary from Amazon S3:

curl -o aws-iam-authenticator https://amazon-eks.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1.16.8/2020-04-16/bin/linux/amd64/aws-iam-authenticator

Give execute permissions to binary

chmod +x ./aws-iam-authenticator

Add binaries to PATH

mkdir -p $HOME/bin && cp ./aws-iam-authenticator $HOME/bin/aws-iam-authenticator && export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

Add $HOME/bin to your PATH environment variable.

echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin' >> ~/.bashrc

Check version to make sure it got installed

aws-iam-authenticator version