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

For me it was because I had my .aws/config file looking like this:

[profile myname]
aws_access_key_id = ....
aws_secret_access_key = ....
region=us-west-1

I think the reason is I based it off my .aws/credentials file, which requires having [profile myname] for Zappa and maybe some other aws/elastic beanstalk tools.

When I changed config to this it worked great:

[myname]
aws_access_key_id = ....
aws_secret_access_key = ....
region=us-west-1