AWS Credentials file not getting picked up by the Provider Chain

Question

I'm having issues getting aws credentials set up on. I'm getting the same issues on MacOSX and CentOS 6.3. I would prefer to keep the credentials in the ~/.aws/credentials file as mentioned in http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSdkDocsJava/latest/DeveloperGuide/java-dg-setup.html#java-dg-install-sdk but after putting the credentials in the form of

[default]
aws_access_key_id = your_access_key_id
aws_secret_access_key = your_secret_access_key

I get this exception

Exception in thread "main" com.amazonaws.AmazonClientException: Unable to load AWS credentials from any provider in the chain
    at com.amazonaws.auth.AWSCredentialsProviderChain.getCredentials(AWSCredentialsProviderChain.java:77)
    at com.amazonaws.services.s3.AmazonS3Client.invoke(AmazonS3Client.java:2853)

The java code I am using to set up my s3Client is as follows:

s3Client = new AmazonS3Client(new DefaultAWSCredentialsProviderChain());

Even after setting the credentials file path manually, it's not working either:

export AWS_CREDENTIAL_FILE=/home/myuser/.aws/credentials

Any ideas why this is not working?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Turns out I had an old version of the aws java sdk in my pom file that I forgot to update. Works great since I updated it to the latest.