I seem to have problems running a command to verify that my credentials are configured correctly and that I can connect to AWS as stated here:https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/tutorial-ec2-ubuntu.html:
When running:
$ aws ec2 describe-regions --output table
I get the following output:
An error occurred (AuthFailure) when calling the DescribeRegions
operation: AWS was not able to validate the provided access
credentials
What am I missing?
After installing the AWS CLI (on a fedora machine), I ran
$ aws configure
for AWS Access Key ID and AWS Secret Access Key:
I went to AWS website and created an IAM user.
For that user, I have gone to the security credentials tab and
I have created a new Access key, which is key value pair of Access key ID,Secret access key.
I have used those values for AWS Access Key ID and AWS Secret Access Key but I keep getting the above error message.
What am I missing? Thanks in advance.
You need to pass the profile parameter. This link from AWS has more details
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Stupidly enough, I did delete by mistake my default AWS IAM user!
I used it for example do aws s3 sync...
Now the error I get is:
$ aws s3 sync build/ s3://mybucket.mydomain.com
fatal error: An error occurred (InvalidAccessKeyId) when calling the ListObjects operation: The AWS Access Key Id you provided does not exist in our records.
Is there a way to recover?
I think I need instructions how to create a new user with the sufficient roles to enable my local aws cli to be able to do aws s3 sync ...
UPDATE: I did just create a new user on my AWS console, and added a policy (to start with) to list my bucket. The problem is I don't know how to attach my aws cli to that new user... :-(
If you are the only person using this AWS Account, then add the AdministratorAccess Policy to your IAM User. That will grant complete access.
Then, in the Security credentials tab of the IAM User click Create access key. Copy the Access Key and Secret Access Key.
On the command line, run aws configure and provide those keys to configure the user.
Test with: aws s3 ls
My goal is to access my s3 buckets from the command line using my AWS educate account.
I expected to get a list of my s3 buckets in the command prompt. I typed in this command. aws s3 ls
I actually received an error message saying Invalid Access Key ID.
They shown do not match they key on the home age of my AWS educate account.
How do I change the keys listed to match the ones on my AWS Educate home page? I think if I correct this then I will be able to access my s3 buckets with aws cli.
Run:
aws configure
And follow the prompts to configure a new Access Key and Secret Access Key.
If this isn't working, there are two other things you can check:
Have you set any of the following environment variables? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-envvars.html. These can override the ones set using aws configure
If that fails, check that $HOME/.aws/credentials is not write protected, or even try updating the credentials manually.
I have an AWS ECS container that runs Jenkins. It runs assuming a role and I wanted to get the access key (both id and secret access key) associated with that role using aws cli within bash shell. I need the key in order to sign a HTTP request being sent to another AWS service using CURL.
I have looked at both aws iam and aws sts commands and I cannot find anything.
Okay I have figured out how to get this information. The meta-data for an instance is made available through a particular IP associated with EC2 instance. In this credentials can be found using:
curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/<NAME_OF_ROLE>
I am wanting to set up a recursive sync from a Linux machine (Fedora) to an AWS S3 bucket. I am logged into Linux as root and have an AWS Key and Secret associated with a specific AWS user "Lisa".
I have installed aws-cli, s3cmd, and attempted to configure both. I have verified the aws/configure and aws/credentials files both have a default user and a "Lisa" user with Access Key and Secret pairs. I receive errors stating that Access is Denied, access key and secret pair not found. I have researched this on the web and verified that there are no environment variables that could be overriding the configure & credential files. I have also granted full access permissions to the bucket created through the AWS Console to all logged in users. I have not rotated the keys, as they were first created a week ago, and I was able to log-in & set-up the AWS console using that same key pair.
What else should I be doing before rotating the keys?
It looks like you haven't configured AWS credentials correctly. Make sure that you have correct access keys in your credentials file. If you don't specify any profiles, awscli uses the default profile.
~/.aws/credentials
[default]
aws_access_key_id=AKIAIDEFAULTKEY
aws_secret_access_key=Mo9T7WNO….
[Lisa]
aws_access_key_id=AKIAILISASKEY
aws_secret_access_key=H0XevhnC….
This command uses the default profile:
aws s3 ls
This command uses Lisa profile:
aws s3 ls --profile Lisa
You can set an environment variable to override the default profile.
export AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE=Lisa
Now this command uses the profile Lisa:
aws s3 ls
If you don't know which profile is active, you can just invoke the following command:
aws sts get-caller-identity
You seem to have several terms intermixed, so it's worth knowing the difference:
Username and password is used to login to the web-based management console. They are short, to be human-readable and easy to remember.
Access Key (starting with AKIA) and Secret Key is used for making API calls. It is also used by the AWS CLI (which makes API calls on your behalf)
Key pair consists of a public and private key, used for authenticating SSH connections. It is a very long block of text.
You mention that an Access Key is not found. This could be because the wrong type of credential is being provided.
I was able to install CLI on windows 16 AWS instance. when I try "aws ec2 describe-instances" CLI command, I get the following error
CLI command "describe-instances" throw error "An error occurred (AuthFailure) when calling the DescribeInstances operation: AWS was not able to validate the provided access credentials"
In .aws\config file I have following content:
[default]
region = us-west-2
How can authorization fail when it took my access key id and secret access key without any issue.
Verify if your datetime is sync ok.
use: ntpdate ntp.server
bests
I deleted my two configuration files from .aws directory and re-ran "aws config"
That fixed the problem for me.
My Steps:
Go to your .aws directory under Users e.g. "c:\Users\Joe\.aws"
Two files: configure and credential. Delete both files
Rerun configure: "aws configure"
Note when you run aws configure you will need the AWS Access and Secret Key. If you don't have them you can just create another.
Steps:
Goto "My Security Credentials" Under you Account Name in AWS Console.
Expand Access Key panel.
Create New Access Key.
When you first ran aws configure, it just populated the local credentials in %UserProfile%\.aws\credentials; it didn't validate them with AWS.
(aws-cli doesn't know what rights your user has until it tries to do an operation -- all of the access control happens on AWS's end. It just tries to do what you ask, and tells you if it doesn't have access, like you saw.)
That said, if you're running the CLI from an AWS instance, you might want to consider applying a role to that instance, so you don't have to store your keys on the instance.
My Access and Security keys are correct. My server time was good. I got error while using Ap-south-1 region. After I changed my region to us-west-2, it worked without any problem.
I tried setting that too on my windows environment. didn't work and getting error above.
so I tried setting my environment
SET AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
SET AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=***YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY*
and then tried running command like "aws ec2 describe-instance"
I tried many things. Finally, just uninstalling and installing again (not repairing) did the trick. Just make sure to save a copy of your credentials (key and key ID) to use later when calling aws configure.