diff --git a/compute/compute-node.Dockerfile b/compute/compute-node.Dockerfile
index 9f1f3b734363..5e7b4e8287ce 100644
--- a/compute/compute-node.Dockerfile
+++ b/compute/compute-node.Dockerfile
@@ -1556,28 +1556,30 @@ RUN apt update && \
         locales \
         procps \
         ca-certificates \
+        curl \
+        unzip \
         $VERSION_INSTALLS && \
     apt clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* && \
     localedef -i en_US -c -f UTF-8 -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias en_US.UTF-8
 
-# s5cmd 2.2.2 from https://github.com/peak/s5cmd/releases/tag/v2.2.2
-# used by fast_import
+# aws cli is used by fast_import (curl and unzip above are at this time only used for this installation step)
 ARG TARGETARCH
-ADD https://github.com/peak/s5cmd/releases/download/v2.2.2/s5cmd_2.2.2_linux_$TARGETARCH.deb /tmp/s5cmd.deb
 RUN set -ex; \
-    \
-    # Determine the expected checksum based on TARGETARCH
     if [ "${TARGETARCH}" = "amd64" ]; then \
-        CHECKSUM="392c385320cd5ffa435759a95af77c215553d967e4b1c0fffe52e4f14c29cf85"; \
+        TARGETARCH_ALT="x86_64"; \
+        CHECKSUM="c9a9df3770a3ff9259cb469b6179e02829687a464e0824d5c32d378820b53a00"; \
     elif [ "${TARGETARCH}" = "arm64" ]; then \
-        CHECKSUM="939bee3cf4b5604ddb00e67f8c157b91d7c7a5b553d1fbb6890fad32894b7b46"; \
+        TARGETARCH_ALT="aarch64"; \
+        CHECKSUM="8181730be7891582b38b028112e81b4899ca817e8c616aad807c9e9d1289223a"; \
     else \
         echo "Unsupported architecture: ${TARGETARCH}"; exit 1; \
     fi; \
-    \
-    # Compute and validate the checksum
-    echo "${CHECKSUM}  /tmp/s5cmd.deb" | sha256sum -c -
-RUN dpkg -i /tmp/s5cmd.deb && rm /tmp/s5cmd.deb
+    curl -L "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-${TARGETARCH_ALT}-2.17.5.zip" -o /tmp/awscliv2.zip; \
+    echo "${CHECKSUM}  /tmp/awscliv2.zip" | sha256sum -c -; \
+    unzip /tmp/awscliv2.zip -d /tmp/awscliv2; \
+    /tmp/awscliv2/aws/install; \
+    rm -rf /tmp/awscliv2.zip /tmp/awscliv2; \
+    true
 
 ENV LANG=en_US.utf8
 USER postgres
diff --git a/compute_tools/src/bin/fast_import.rs b/compute_tools/src/bin/fast_import.rs
index b6db3eb11abc..793ec4cf1094 100644
--- a/compute_tools/src/bin/fast_import.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/bin/fast_import.rs
@@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ use nix::unistd::Pid;
 use tracing::{info, info_span, warn, Instrument};
 use utils::fs_ext::is_directory_empty;
 
+#[path = "fast_import/aws_s3_sync.rs"]
+mod aws_s3_sync;
 #[path = "fast_import/child_stdio_to_log.rs"]
 mod child_stdio_to_log;
 #[path = "fast_import/s3_uri.rs"]
 mod s3_uri;
-#[path = "fast_import/s5cmd.rs"]
-mod s5cmd;
 
 #[derive(clap::Parser)]
 struct Args {
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ pub(crate) async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     }
 
     info!("upload pgdata");
-    s5cmd::sync(Utf8Path::new(&pgdata_dir), &s3_prefix.append("/"))
+    aws_s3_sync::sync(Utf8Path::new(&pgdata_dir), &s3_prefix.append("/pgdata/"))
         .await
         .context("sync dump directory to destination")?;
 
@@ -334,10 +334,10 @@ pub(crate) async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     {
         let status_dir = working_directory.join("status");
         std::fs::create_dir(&status_dir).context("create status directory")?;
-        let status_file = status_dir.join("status");
+        let status_file = status_dir.join("pgdata");
         std::fs::write(&status_file, serde_json::json!({"done": true}).to_string())
             .context("write status file")?;
-        s5cmd::sync(&status_file, &s3_prefix.append("/status/pgdata"))
+        aws_s3_sync::sync(&status_dir, &s3_prefix.append("/status/"))
             .await
             .context("sync status directory to destination")?;
     }
diff --git a/compute_tools/src/bin/fast_import/s5cmd.rs b/compute_tools/src/bin/fast_import/aws_s3_sync.rs
similarity index 50%
rename from compute_tools/src/bin/fast_import/s5cmd.rs
rename to compute_tools/src/bin/fast_import/aws_s3_sync.rs
index d2d9a79736fe..5fa58c8f875f 100644
--- a/compute_tools/src/bin/fast_import/s5cmd.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/bin/fast_import/aws_s3_sync.rs
@@ -4,24 +4,21 @@ use camino::Utf8Path;
 use super::s3_uri::S3Uri;
 
 pub(crate) async fn sync(local: &Utf8Path, remote: &S3Uri) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-    let mut builder = tokio::process::Command::new("s5cmd");
-    // s5cmd uses aws-sdk-go v1, hence doesn't support AWS_ENDPOINT_URL
-    if let Some(val) = std::env::var_os("AWS_ENDPOINT_URL") {
-        builder.arg("--endpoint-url").arg(val);
-    }
+    let mut builder = tokio::process::Command::new("aws");
     builder
+        .arg("s3")
         .arg("sync")
         .arg(local.as_str())
         .arg(remote.to_string());
     let st = builder
         .spawn()
-        .context("spawn s5cmd")?
+        .context("spawn aws s3 sync")?
         .wait()
         .await
-        .context("wait for s5cmd")?;
+        .context("wait for aws s3 sync")?;
     if st.success() {
         Ok(())
     } else {
-        Err(anyhow::anyhow!("s5cmd failed"))
+        Err(anyhow::anyhow!("aws s3 sync failed"))
     }
 }