Customer Requirement:

• The customer requires an updated version of the awscli2 package to be made available in the YUM repository.

• The current version in the repo is outdated and does not support the latest OpenSSL libraries provided by the same repository.
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Reason for Requirement:

• During system updates (dnf update / yum update), OpenSSL is upgraded to a newer version.
• The existing awscli2 package is too old to work with this updated OpenSSL version.
  -  As a result, AWS operations fail—specifically kubectl access to AWS EKS clusters—until the customer manually downgrades OpenSSL.
• This workaround is neither secure nor operationally sustainable.
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Impact on Customer:

• Breaks EKS authentication workflows.
• Interrupts automation, CI/CD operations, and cluster management tasks.
• Forces the customer to apply insecure or manual workarounds (OpenSSL downgrade).
• Prevents systems from staying fully patched.