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vikas gupta
vikas gupta

Reputation: 1

Access Denied error while trying to use AWS CLI commands

I have a user in AWS having Full admin access but still when I try to describe my EC2 instances or List S3 buckets, I get an Access denied error message - examples below. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

aws s3 ls

An error occurred (AccessDenied) when calling the ListBuckets operation: Access Denied

aws ec2 describe-instances --region eu-west-2

An error occurred (UnauthorizedOperation) when calling the DescribeInstances operation: You are not authorized to perform this operation.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3517

Answers (1)

John Hanley
John Hanley

Reputation: 81454

From the command prompt or Linux shell type "aws configure". Verify that the credentials and default region are correct (the last four characters will be displayed). I had the same problem today and I forgot to configure my access keys on a new machine.

Upvotes: 0

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