AWS : The config profile (MyName) could not be found

Question

Every time I want to config something with AWS I get the following error :

\"The config profile (myname) could not be found\"

like : aws confi

Answer 1

Working with profiles is little tricky. Documentation can be found at: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/topic/config-vars.html (But you need to pay attention on env variables like AWS_PROFILE)

Using profile with aws cli requires a config file (default at ~/.aws/config or set using AWS_CONFIG_FILE). A sample config file for reference: `

[profile PROFILE_NAME]
 output=json
 region=us-west-1
 aws_access_key_id=foo
 aws_secret_access_key=bar

`

Env variable AWS_PROFILE informs AWS cli about the profile to use from AWS config. It is not an alternate of config file like AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID/AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY are for ~/.aws/credentials.

Another interesting fact is if AWS_PROFILE is set and the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables are set, then the credentials provided by AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY will override the credentials located in the profile provided by AWS_PROFILE.