amazon web services - AWS command line - unable to locate credentials - when specifying profile

Question

I have multiple profiles set up in my .awscredentials file.

From the Windows 10 command line I have tried two approaches as per https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-profiles.html

aws cp s3://bucketname etc... --profile profile1

setx AWS_PROFILE profile1 aws cp etc...

Both cases give me "unable to locate credentials" on each file that is being uploaded to S3.

I use these profiles in Python with no issue.

This is the output of the "aws configure list" command:

C:Users
walt>aws configure list
      Name                    Value             Type    Location
      ----                    -----             ----    --------
   profile                <not set>             None    None
access_key                <not set>             None    None
secret_key                <not set>             None    None
    region                us-east-1      config-file    ~/.aws/config

but if I type "aws configure list --profile profile", then I see the profile name, and keys filled in.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65904486/aws-command-line-unable-to-locate-credentials-when-specifying-profile

Answer 1

Turns out, I was not reading carefully. After adding the --profile profile1, the error changed to "access denied", which is something totally different.

I'm leaving the question though, because it might help someone see how to work with multiple profiles.