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.