How Do I Clear The Credentials In AWS Configure?

Question

I have deleted the AWS credentials in sudo nano ~/.aws/config. But, the credentials are still in aws configure. Is there a way to reset aws configure with clear state?

Answer 1

just remove ~/.aws/credentials along with ~/.aws/config

EDIT: Note path references user home directory and specific to each user in system.

Answer 2

Do not delete the files if you have multiple profiles created as all will be lost if you delete these files! unless thats what you want :)

Go to each of the file -

 - ~/.aws/credentials  - ~/.aws/config 

and remove just the part profiles you want to delete. Eg.

~/.aws/credentials

[default] aws_access_key_id=yourAccessKeyId aws_secret_access_key=yourSecretAccessKey  [user2] aws_access_key_id=yourAccessKeyId aws_secret_access_key=yourSecretAccessKey 

and

~/.aws/config

[default] region=us-west-2 output=json  [profile user2] region=us-east-1 output=text 

Just delete entries corresponding to user2 profile if thats what you want. And you should also give a profile name to profile you configure -

aws configure --profile user2 

Else it will just be [default]

More details - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-multiple-profiles.html