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    Was really pretty simple and just worked ;). Note, .NetCore is really important, I accidently installed AWSPowerShell instead of AWSPowerShell.NetCore, which installs but throws exceptions. Duh.

Powershell home
Powershell installation incl brew for macos
PowershellGallery and AWSPowerShell.NetCore

Set-AWSCredential -ProfileName 'SOME-PROFILE.ROLE'
Set-DefaultAWSRegion -Region 'us-east-1'
note: Turns out running the Set- commands above makes the aws commandlets disappear. Use explicit region/profile on individual commands
# brew install powershell core (based on .net core)
brew tap caskroom/cask && brew cask install powershell

# load powershell
pwsh

# install aws cmdlets && set some defaults
Install-Module AWSPowerShell.NetCore

# explicit, common, parameters (profile/region)
Get-DDBTable -TableName SOME-TABLENAME  -ProfileName 'SOME-PROFILE.ROLE' -Region 'us-east-1'

# use splatting as an easy way to pass/change parameters common to cmdlets
$CommonParams = @{"ProfileName"="SOME-PROFILE.ROLE";"Region"="us-east-1"}
Get-DDBTable -TableName SOME-TABLENAME @CommonParams

# change profile and get nonprod table
$CommonParams.ProfileName='SOME-OTHER-PROFILE.ROLE'
Get-DDBTable -TableName SOME-TABLENAME @CommonParams

# bask in the glory of powershell core on linux/macos