aws cli: invalid security token - amazon-web-services

I'm trying to create a reusable delegation set to use as whitelisted nameservers for my domains, using aws cli on Mac OS X. My AWS credentials (those of an IAM profile I created for that purpose with full administrator privileges, an location set to us-east-1) were correctly entered during setup and accepted by the system.
When entering the command
$ aws route53 create-reusable-delegation-set --caller-reference [CALLER-REFERENCE] --hosted-zone-id [HOSTED_ZONE] --generate-cli-skeleton
the request is successful and I get the response:
{
"CallerReference": "",
"HostedZoneId": ""
}
But when I remove --generate-cli-skeleton and enter
aws route53 create-reusable-delegation-set --caller-reference [CALLER-REFERENCE] --hosted-zone-id [HOSTED_ZONE]
I get this:
An error occurred (InvalidClientTokenId) when calling the CreateReusableDelegationSet operation: The security token included in the request is invalid.
I reality, my IAM credentials, despite being valid, and despite the profile I am using (donaldjenkins) having full administrator privileges, are refused systematically in all aws services and for all commands, not just Route53.
I've been unable to pinpoint the cause of this despite extensive research. Any suggestions gratefully receieved.

Deleting my credentials file (Linux, macOS, or Unix: ~/.aws Windows: %UserProfile%\.aws) then running aws configure again worked for me

The solution is to delete existing credentials for the IAM user and issue new ones. For some reason the credentials recorded during the initial setup of aws cli never worked properly, but overwriting them with new ones removed the issue instantly.

I had the same exact issue.
I'm running NodeJS on my local environment, and trying to deploy to Amazon using code deploy and some other aws tools.
What worked for me was to delete the current config and credentials folder, regnerate a new key and use. THis was after i originally installed aws cli and added the keys, had to add the keys again.
Depending on your folder structure, navigate to your home directory.
On mac if you open a new terminal, it should show your current home directory: "/Users/YOURNAME"
cd .aws
rm -rf config
rm -rf credentials
After you do this, go back to your home directory, then run:
"aws configure".
Enter your Key and secret key.
You can find more details here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-configure.html#cli-quick-configuration under Quickly Configuring the AWS CLI

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AWS cli switching between accounts

I had an AWS account configured to work with the CLI. The free tier expired so I setup another account. I created an IAM user ran aws configure and put in the credentials for that user. I have the default profile setup with that users credentials as well.
From the cli if I run the command aws s3 ls it will always show the buckets from the old account. If I specify the profile using aws s3 ls --profile GrantM then it lists the buckets from the correct account and IAM user.
The environment variables are set to the new user also. Can someone explain this and how to switch it to use my new account?
create or edit this file:
% vim ~/.aws/credentials
list as many key pairs as you like:
[default]
aws_access_key_id=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
aws_secret_access_key=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
[user1]
aws_access_key_id=AKIAI44QH8DHBEXAMPLE
aws_secret_access_key=je7MtGbClwBF/2Zp9Utk/h3yCo8nvbEXAMPLEKEY
set a local variable to select the pair of keys you want to use:
% export AWS_PROFILE=user1
do what you like:
aws s3api list-buckets # any aws cli command now using user1 pair of keys
more details:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-profiles.html
When you use aws configure without any additional arguments it should allow you to amend the default profile, which is the one that is being accessed when you specify no profile. By amending this you will not need to specify the --profile flag.
If you would also like to amend over named profiles you would simply use aws configure --profile $PROFILE_NAME, where you can just as above replace the credentials currently stored in the configuration.
Alternatively for Linux/MacOS you can access your credentials in ~/.aws/credentials or for Windows in %USERPROFILE%\.aws\credentials. You can modify these files to replace any values.
More information is available on the Named profiles documentation page.
I would not mix environment variables and credentials profiles, you'll just get confused.
Remove the environment variables, ensure that the default profile in your ~/.aws/credentials file (or %USERPROFILE%\.aws\credentials on Windows) is set to the new credentials, then run aws s3 ls. If it's not what you expected, then run aws s3 ls --debug to work out what you did wrong.
According to Credentials — Boto 3 Docs documentation, the Environment Variables will be used in preference to the configuration files.
Therefore, I suggest you remove the credentials from your Environment Variables, and just use the configuration files.
Depending upon your operating system, you could use unset, or remove them from where ever you put them in the Environment Variables.
run on terminal where you be running the cli commands
export AWS_PROFILE='PROFILE_NAME'
move this the bashrc/zshrc file to make this permanent or just add a default section to the .aws/config and .aws/configure. Run following command and input the credentials you want.
aws configure
works on mac and windows.

Unable to authenticate my AWS credentials for ECR

I have installed the latest versions of the aws-cli-2 and docker, as well as ran "aws configure" and entered my access key and secret key. I have also verified the aws.config is correct and showing the right region and output format. My credentials in AWS are admin. I keep getting the following error:
'''Unable to locate credentials. You can configure credentials by running "aws configure".
Error: Cannot perform an interactive login from a non TTY device'''
Even though I have already ran 'aws configure.' I am running the commands prefixed with 'sudo' as well. Any thoughts?! Thank you for your time!
The aws configure command was being run as the local user, whereas the ecr command was being run as sudo.
If you run commands as sudo it will not have access to your local users config, it will instead default to the root users.
Instead ensure all commands are run as the same user.
If you want to use the aws credentials file from the default location you can also specify the location via the AWS_CONFIG_FILE environment variable.

AWS CLI: Could not connect to the endpoint URL

Was able to set up a pull from an S3 bucket on a Mac seamlessly, but have been struggling with an identical process on a PC (Windows). Here is what I have done -- any help along the way would be much appreciated.
Installed awscli using pip
Ran aws configure in the command prompt and inputed the proper access key id and secret access key.
Ran the s3 code: G:\>aws s3 cp --recursive s3://url-index-given/ . (where the url was replaced with url-index-given for example purposes).
And got this error:
fatal error: Could not connect to the endpoint URL: "https://url-index-given.s3.None.amazonaws.com/?list-type=2&prefix=&encoding-type=url"
I have tried uninstalling the awscli package and followed this process recommended by Amazon without any errors.
The error indicates have you have given an invalid value for Region when using aws configure. (See the None in the URL? That is where the Region normally goes.)
You should run aws configure again and give it a valid region (eg us-west-2).

gsutil permission in Ansible

I would like to use gsutil as a command in Ansible (2.5.X).
On the managed server I already setup Cloud access (service account).
When I use gsutil on the machine, it works without problems.
But when I create a playbook on my management machine and try to
run SDK command I have no access to cloud and permission denied
errors.
I suspect that SSH connection and environment is handled in
a specific way by Ansible. Could someone help me how to use SDK commands in Ansible?
- name: use ansible command
command: >
gsutil list gs://project.something.com
I know that there is gs_storage module. But I do not know
where to look for gs_access_key in an already configured setup.
In .config/gcloud? I'm still learning the Cloud, so some of this
things are new to me. The Cloud access was setup using .json key,
but after I delete this key from the managed machine (shouldn't be exposed).
Best Regards
Kamil
gsutil list would at least require role Viewer assigned to the instance service account - or roles/storage.objectViewer, in case it should also be able to get files from a bucket. Providing Credentials as Module Parameters shows how to authenticate with the gcp_compute_instance module - also see the Cloud Storage IAM Roles and Cloud Storage Authentication (the scopes).

When to use AWS CLI and EB CLI

For a month or so, I've been studying AWS services and now I have to accomplish some basic stuff on AWS elastic beanstalk via command line. As far as I understand there are the aws elasticbeanstalk [command] and the eb [command] CLI installed on the build instance.
When I run eb status inside application folder, I get response in the form:
Environment details for: app-name
Application name: app-name
Region: us-east-1
Deployed Version: app-version
Environment ID: env-name
Platform: 64bit Amazon Linux ........
Tier: WebServer-Standard
CNAME: app-name.elasticbeanstalk.com
Updated: 2016-07-14 .......
Status: Ready
Health: Green
That tells me eb init has been run for the application.
On the other hand if I run:
aws elasticbeanstalk describe-application-versions --application-name app-name --region us-east-1
I get the error:
Unable to locate credentials. You can configure credentials by running "aws configure".
In home folder of current user there is a .aws directory with a credential file containing a [profile] line and aws_access_key_id and
aws_secret_access_key lines all set up.
Beside the obvious problem with the credentials, what I really lack is understanding of the two cli. Why is EB cli not asking for credentials and AWS cli is? When do I use one or the other? Can I use only aws cli? Any clarification on the matter will be highly appreciated.
EDIT:
For anyone ending up here, having the same problem with "Unable to locate credentials". Adding --profile profile-name option solved the problem for me. profile-name can be found in ~/.aws/config (or credentials) file on [profile profile-name] line.
In order to verify that the AWS CLI is configured on your system run aws configure and provide it with all the details it requires. That should fix your credentials problem and checking the change in configuration will allow you to understand what's wrong with your current conf.
the eb cli and the aws cli have very similar capabilities, and I too am a bit confused as to why they both should exist. From my experience the main differences are that the cli is used to interact with your AWS account using simple requests while the eb cli creates connections between you and the eb envs and so allows for finer control over them.
For instance - I've just developed a CI/CD pipeline for our beanstalk apps. When I use the eb cli I can monitor the deployment of our apps and notify the developers when it's finished. aws cli does not offer that functionality, and the only to achieve that is to repeatedly query the service until you receive the desired result.
The AWS CLI is a general tool that works on all AWS resources. It's not tied to a specific software project, the type of machine you're on, the directory you're in, or anything like that. It only needs credentials, whether they've been put there manually if it's your own machine, or generated by AWS if it's an EC2 instance.
The EB CLI is a high level tool to wrangle your software project into place. It's tied to the directory you're in, it assumes that the stuff in your directory is your project, and it has short commands that do a lot of background work to magically put everything in the right place.