aws cloudformation package command not found on aws-cli/1.10.56

2
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I am a AWS noob and have been task to investigate serverless deployment.

I am following the examples in: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/serverless-deploy-wt.html as well as http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/cloudformation/package.html and am experiencing the above. It seems that "aws cloudformation" simply do not have the "package" command.

Here's the output of my "aws cloudformation package" command:

usage: aws [options] <command> <subcommand> [<subcommand> ...]
[parameters] To see help text, you can run:

aws help   aws <command> help   aws <command> <subcommand> help aws:
error: argument operation: Invalid choice, valid choices are:

cancel-update-stack |
continue-update-rollback |
create-change-set | 
create-stack |
delete-change-set | 
delete-stack |
describe-account-limits | 
describe-change-set |
describe-stack-events | 
describe-stack-resource |
describe-stack-resources | 
describe-stacks |
estimate-template-cost | 
execute-change-set |
get-stack-policy | 
get-template |
get-template-summary | 
list-change-sets |
list-stack-resources | 
list-stacks |
set-stack-policy | 
signal-resource |
update-stack | 
validate-template |
wait | 
help

Any advice greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance!

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amazon-web-servicesamazon-cloudformationaws-cli
it seems to me that my aws-cli is a 1.10.[*] version. I have used the "curl approach" to update the aws-cli and "aws cloudformation package" has appear. - Bryan Jyh Herng Chong

1 Answers

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aws cloudformation package was added in AWS CLI 1.11.19. See the 1.11.19 changelog for more details.

Simply update away from 1.10.56 and try again, since this old version that you are currently using won't have the new command.

An aside: This AWS CLI Changelog seems more up-to-date than the official release notes pages; I'm not sure if that's an inconsistency or if they've just stopped supporting them.