# Installing and upgrading `botocore`
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The Amazon EFS client uses `botocore` to interact with other AWS services. It is required if you want to monitor mount attempt success or failure for your EFS file systems in CloudWatch Logs. For more information, see [Monitoring mount attempt successes and failures](how-to-monitor-mount-status.md).

For instructions on installing and upgrading `botocore`, see [ Installing `botocore`](https://github.com/aws/efs-utils/blob/master/README.md#install-botocore) in the `amazon-efs-utils` README on Github.