Not authorized for images: boto3 error

Question

I am trying to run this script:

from __future__ import print_function

import paramiko
import boto3


#print('Loading function')

paramiko.util.log_to_file("/tmp/Dawny.log")

# List of EC2 variables
region = 'us-east-1'
image = 'ami-<>'
keyname = '<>.pem'

ec2 = boto3.resource('ec2')


instances = ec2.create_instances(
    ImageId=image, MinCount=1, MaxCount=1, 
    InstanceType = 't2.micro', KeyName=keyname)

instance = instances[0]
instance.wait_until_running()

instance.load()

print(instance.public_dns_name)

I am running this script on a server which has all the aws configurations done (in aws configure )

And, when I run it, I get this error:

botocore.exceptions.ClientError: An error occurred (AuthFailure) when calling the RunInstances operation: Not authorized for images: [ami-<>]

Any reason why? And, how do I solve it?

[The image is private. But, as I have configured boto on the server, technically, it shouldn't be a problem, right?]

Answer 1

There is few answer for this error

1. Insufficient parameter, but create_instance give your other error. eg VPC-id, subnet-ID, Security group are missing.

2. Your API Access key in credential doesn't have any right to initate run-instance. Please go to IAM and check whether your user are given adequate roles to perform the task.

Answer 2

You might run into this error if you try to use the Key Pair file name instead of the actual name in AWS Console > EC2 > Key Pairs

aws ec2 run-instances --image-id ami-123457916 --instance-type t3.nano 
--key-name **my_ec2_keypair.pem**

Should be name of the KeyPair, not the filename of the KeyPair.