diff --git a/app-admin/awscli/Manifest b/app-admin/awscli/Manifest
index 508dc332c8c00..ef0f0118351d5 100644
--- a/app-admin/awscli/Manifest
+++ b/app-admin/awscli/Manifest
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ DIST aws-cli-1.26.3.gh.tar.gz 2292758 BLAKE2B b872cf8412628e1b8409fa96f2e1954cbb
 DIST aws-cli-1.26.4.gh.tar.gz 2293891 BLAKE2B 5565375f74d88b5e0ddc1a96ab461c63bad04ee7a624a7b77e71a3bfee44f75175e892d2a91a1d8e32f7d9cce9888f87109db0bc4aa5b032947d94cbf713b910 SHA512 74df7c09d4edad09745ee9d0412d288ef34230d8fced1b4c8471fb278032b4141c077fc5c3f458c6d76bd593d672c59f650f1372cf324a15e3b12afcabecec42
 DIST aws-cli-1.26.5.gh.tar.gz 2294226 BLAKE2B 5c52d77679dcb999626751a7aa9abe3d81a1ee49584ea928ffe7e1fbc8ab33ec02d1385b4fea1d888e4cc11eabce73901389d1fd5fe9d365369f303da09b49c6 SHA512 3c1f6b43bef84060b8d3d7a7d848189e2ec0471e93340a04456f7fe70902722cac59a864db00b9a522ac14fd787ac415403982fd40facbab51a21ef11070b71e
 DIST aws-cli-1.27.0.gh.tar.gz 2294372 BLAKE2B 5cf6f745ae11155dffbdcd58f0850c26667cec8eac0546a7e1b4031270336bc4d5258946d00c3a649ad0c7a88ff82a1770139f21ffcc3bba2394c9388176304f SHA512 b294c72ec36010b042a2b84cd423270c1920c28b40b866fc5fbbfc4625f1525ddd18dfcce66eca8f3f65b2bdd4641eaec2b11a8d7bc1f257d97cdd6f69168653
+DIST aws-cli-1.27.1.gh.tar.gz 2294930 BLAKE2B 720981aa974ee3999806fc480f9a20afef9a8c5c36a81d7beef8f692b5e6a3b0c567979c5cba6d243d695b310e63391d64138e8ed51ec3df8208c7d20a758ec1 SHA512 021c97ebd2f52d14a99d54143ef8a657e939caab32423b9747fa78f53430b914d4c93998cbe52e685550d3823a4d2f2049b3e3895c6c0ecec5e4535bd068008a
diff --git a/app-admin/awscli/awscli-1.27.1.ebuild b/app-admin/awscli/awscli-1.27.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7bff39ee809af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-admin/awscli/awscli-1.27.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..11} )
+
+inherit bash-completion-r1 distutils-r1 multiprocessing
+
+MY_P=aws-cli-${PV}
+DESCRIPTION="Universal Command Line Environment for AWS"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/
+	https://pypi.org/project/awscli/
+"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/archive/${PV}.tar.gz
+		-> ${MY_P}.gh.tar.gz
+"
+S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~riscv ~x86"
+
+# botocore is x.(y+2).z
+BOTOCORE_PV="$(ver_cut 1).$(( $(ver_cut 2) + 2)).$(ver_cut 3-)"
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/botocore-${BOTOCORE_PV}[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/colorama[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/docutils[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/rsa[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/s3transfer-0.6.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pyyaml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	!app-admin/awscli-bin
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		dev-python/pytest-forked[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest-xdist[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+src_prepare() {
+	# do not rely on bundled deps in botocore (sic!)
+	find -name '*.py' -exec sed -i \
+		-e 's:from botocore[.]vendored import:import:' \
+		-e 's:from botocore[.]vendored[.]:from :' \
+		{} + || die
+	# strip overzealous upper bounds on requirements
+	sed -i -e 's:,<[0-9.]*::' -e 's:==:>=:' setup.py || die
+	distutils-r1_src_prepare
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	# integration tests require AWS credentials and Internet access
+	epytest tests/{functional,unit} -n "$(makeopts_jobs)" --forked
+}
+
+python_install_all() {
+	newbashcomp bin/aws_bash_completer aws
+
+	insinto /usr/share/zsh/site-functions
+	newins bin/aws_zsh_completer.sh _aws
+
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+
+	rm "${ED}"/usr/bin/{aws.cmd,aws_bash_completer,aws_zsh_completer.sh} || die
+}