How to change the AWS account using the Elastic Beanstalk CLI

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bpn picture bpn · Mar 22, 2015 · Viewed 23.8k times · Source

I deployed an app using elastic beanstalk to my personal AWS account..Now I want to change the AWS credentials so the eb cli knows to deploy to a different account. But it does not ask me for the AWS keys when I type "eb init". Where do I specify this?

Answer

bpn picture bpn · Mar 24, 2015

I had to add a new profile to this file ~/.aws/config. Example of the file with 2 profiles:

[profile eb-cli]
aws_access_key_id = XXXXXXXXXXXXX
aws_secret_access_key = XXXXXXXXXXXX

[profile eb-cli2]
aws_access_key_id = XXXXXXXXXX
aws_secret_access_key = XXXXXXXXXXXX

Also make sure to update the profile value in your application .elasticbeanstalk/config.yml

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