The AWS Access Key Id does not exist in our records

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kaushikdr picture kaushikdr · Aug 20, 2016 · Viewed 106.6k times · Source

I created a new Access Key and configured that in the AWS CLI with aws configure. It created the .ini file in ~/.aws/config. When I run aws s3 ls it gives:

A client error (InvalidAccessKeyId) occurred when calling the ListBuckets operation: The AWS Access Key Id you provided does not exist in our records.

AmazonS3FullAccess policy is also attached to the user. How to fix this?

Answer

Manish Joshi picture Manish Joshi · Jan 25, 2017

It might be happening that you have the old keys exported via env variables (bash_profile) and since the env variables have higher precedence over credential files it is giving the error "the access key id does not exists".

Remove the old keys from the bash_profile and you would be good to go.

Happened with me once earlier when I forgot I have credentials in bash_profile and gave me headache for quite some time :)

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