The actual package management system for PowerShell modules is PowerShellGet. AIUI, PackageManagement really is just a convenience for providing a consistent se

The actual package management system for PowerShell modules is PowerShellGet. AIUI, PackageManagement really is just a convenience for providing a consistent set of PowerShell commands for driving arbitrary package management systems, and has no package management capabilities at all itself. It's not Windows-specific, and seems to have been made cross-platform with PowerShell itself. On Mac, PowerShell Core includes PackageManagement, and two "providers" - an adapter for PowerShellGet and one for NuGet, so you appear to be able to do either: Find-Module AWSPowerShell.NetCore (to use PowerShellGet directly) Or: Find-Package AWSPowerShell.NetCore (to go through PackageManagement) I didn't know most of this until I started poking around, so thanks for asking!