Partial credentials found in env, missing: AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

Question

Just configured the AWS CLI on my computer with my AWS Access and Secret Key. When I try to use the AWS CLI though it gives me this error.

Partial credentials found in env, missing: AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

I went to ~/.aws/config, and sure enough those credentials are there, including the AWS Secret Key, so I'm not sure why its squawking at me.

Answer 1

You should have this file ~/.aws/credentials and the contents should be in the following format:

[default]
aws_access_key_id = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
aws_secret_access_key = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Answer 2

For anyone who is having the same problem - this is solution that worked for me:

If you are on Windows - check if you don't have AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID set in your system variables. AWS CLI uses something called configuration provider chain - and environment variables take precedence over configuration file. In my case somehow I had only set AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID thus the error message.

Answer 3

If you are using MacOS, this may be caused because you set other credentials in the environmental variables.

Setting the new credentials to the environmental variables might solve your problem.

To do so run this in the terminal:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=X
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=Y
export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=REGION

Substitute X, Y, and REGION with the values corresponding to your application.

Source documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-envvars.html

Answer 4

I have done several attempts to tests to the workflow yml but I did rerun the same workflow so the changes were never actually run. I had to remove existing workflow and re-initiate/pushed yml configuration file again. Worked for me. Thank You!