aws_completer does not auto complete command aliases, even though aliases are displayed as valid choices in error message
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Description
### Describe the feature
Currently, if you were to type an invalid subcommand, you get back a list of valid subcommands
```shell
$ aws ec2 in
usage: aws [options] [ ...] [parameters]
To see help text, you can run:
aws help
aws help
aws help
aws: error: argument operation: Invalid choice, valid choices are:
accept-address-transfer | accept-reserved-instances-exchange-quote
accept-transit-gateway-multicast-domain-associations | accept-transit-gateway-peering-attachment
[...]
```
This list actually includes custom aliases defined in `~/.aws/cli/alias`
```shell
$ aws ec2 in
usage: aws [options] [ ...] [parameters]
To see help text, you can run:
aws help
aws help
aws help
aws: error: argument operation: Invalid choice, valid choices are:
accept-address-transfer | accept-reserved-instances-exchange-quote
accept-transit-gateway-multicast-domain-associations | accept-transit-gateway-peering-attachment
accept-transit-gateway-vpc-attachment | accept-vpc-endpoint-connections
[....]
withdraw-byoip-cidr | wait
instances-running-table | instances-stopped-table
instances-status | help
$
```
However, `aws_autocomplete` does not seem to have available the aliases to be auto completed. The below command does not display any of the `instances-*` commands as shown in the error message above.
```shell
$ aws ec2 in
```
The `aws_completer` command doesn't include the alias in it's results
```shell
$ COMP_LINE="aws ec2 i" aws_completer
import-client-vpn-client-certificate-revocation-list
import-image
import-key-pair
import-snapshot
$
```
### Use Case
It is much faster to use autocomplete to complete long commands as well as to remind oneself of what commands exist based on a known prefix. This should include custom aliases which are created in the `~/.aws/cli/alias` file.
### Proposed Solution
Make sure the same method of building the list of available subcommands in error messages is used by `aws_completer` to build available command and subcommand choices including aliases from `~/.aws/cli/alias`.
### Other Information
_No response_
### Acknowledgements
- [ ] I may be able to implement this feature request
- [ ] This feature might incur a breaking change
### CLI version used
aws-cli/2.17.32 Python/3.11.9 Linux/6.11.0-21-generic exe/x86_64.ubuntu.24
### Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
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