diff --git a/pkgs/tools/admin/awscli/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/admin/awscli/default.nix
index 9b9ae350d2c9..334e7f6ce1d3 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/admin/awscli/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/admin/awscli/default.nix
@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
 
 pythonPackages.buildPythonPackage rec {
   name = "awscli-${version}";
-  version = "1.5.5";
+  version = "1.6.10";
   namePrefix = "";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/archive/${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1xqaav4g07jzv8i4hkf52dimgmc0zv0fj9rbvz5kiln8470qzifw";
+    sha256 = "1g25yqxpcjrwjiibwgjrlqdyx6hpdlcb6zr2s05w592gr9gpbwpm";
   };
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ 
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
     pythonPackages.botocore
     pythonPackages.bcdoc
     pythonPackages.six
@@ -19,4 +19,11 @@ pythonPackages.buildPythonPackage rec {
     pythonPackages.rsa
     pythonPackages.pyasn1
   ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = https://aws.amazon.com/cli/;
+    description = "Unified tool to manage your AWS services";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ muflax ];
+  };
 }