A simple container with Python and the latest AWS CLI
Running this image in a container...
docker run --rm -it pointw/aws-cli...brings you straight to a command prompt where you can run aws commands.
First run aws configure, enter your access key, secret key, region, etc.
Alternately you can run with those values in environment variables:
docker run --rm -it -e "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AAAA" -e "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=BBBB" -e "AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-2" pointw/aws-cli(replace AAAA and BBBB with your actual access keys, of course).
You can reuse the container by dropping the --rm, saving having to always run aws configure or pass the environment variables. Or you could even build a new image based on this one with those values specified - just don't push that image anywhere public.
See also: AWS CLI Command Reference AWS CLI Environment Variables