Unable to locate credentials. You can configure credentials by running “aws configure”.
Error message is confusing under these circumstances
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I’ve written numerous blog posts on different methods of creating AWS CLI Profiles and assuming roles here:
The thing that is confusing is that I’m creating a role profile configuration that assumes a role and references a source profile for the credentials.
Now if I had a typo in the name of the source profile or forgot to configure the credentials this might make sense.
However, the problem was in this case that I used the configuration:
role = instead of
role_arn = Perhaps a better error message would be:
Invalid configuration option: role. Did you mean role_arn?
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