Error when using AWS-SDK-GO (NoCredentialProviders: no valid providers in chain)

Question

I've recently started using the aws-sdk-go package.
Walking through the instructions, my folder structure is as follows:

• bin/ , pkg/ (as always)
• src/
  • app/main.go (code taken from the docs)
  • github.com/aws

Now when I run go install, and then execute the app.exe (using windows here),
I'm getting the following error:

panic: NoCredentialProviders: no valid providers in chain

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You need to provide an AWS access key and secret key to authenticate and use AWS services.

See the README here https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go#configuring-credentials

Answer 2

If anyone runs into the same issue I had with this:

I read a doc that said to put the file at %USERPROFILE%.awscredentials on a Windows, but they just forgot the slash. It should be %USERPROFILE%.aws/credentials.