diff --git a/configs/common/packages.yaml b/configs/common/packages.yaml
index c70d6dd3f..3fcce991d 100644
--- a/configs/common/packages.yaml
+++ b/configs/common/packages.yaml
@@ -12,9 +12,8 @@
         yacc: [bison]
         zlib-api: [zlib-ng]
     #
-    # This version of awscli goes with py-pyyaml@5.4.1
-    awscli:
-      version: ['1.27.84']
+    awscli-v2:
+      require: "~examples"
     bacio:
       version: ['2.4.1']
     bison:
diff --git a/spack b/spack
index 3520c556b..712f4a296 160000
--- a/spack
+++ b/spack
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 3520c556b63de8b489efe27fe13f7057171c0e99
+Subproject commit 712f4a2962f1faed963e4dc22f30aacf9b1e093d