" The requested dns-route53 plugin does not appear to be installed."

One problem is that certbot-auto is going to erase plugins that you install with pip this way.

As you can see at https://certbot.eff.org/ if you select your operating system versn, on your OS we recommend using a Certbot Docker image if you need DNS plugins.

https://certbot.eff.org/docs/install.html#running-with-docker

If this isn't a good option for you, you might want to upgrade to CentOS 7, as indicated by @mnordhoff, or try acme.sh:

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