Invalid Access Key ID

Question

I am currently using AWS CLI and for some reason I get this error. Eventhough my access key and secret keys was generated with S3BucketFullAccess policy to my user. When I tried doing aws s3 ls on the terminal after configuring of course, I got this error.

ERROR:
An error occurred (InvalidAccessKeyId) when calling the ListBuckets operation: The AWS Access Key ID you provided does not exist in our record.

This happen even tho I configure it with the access and secret key I generated. PLEASE HELP !!!

Steve_M · Answer

First thing to do is verify the keys are current `aws iam list-access-keys` and confirm the status is active.

Then `aws configure list` and you should be able to see the last four characters of the access key & the secret key. Do these match up with the key that you created?

Riku_Kobayashi · Answer

Verify that the access key and secret access key are correct by using the following command.  
Also, try restarting the shell after changing the access key and secret access key settings.  
```
aws configure list
```

That error can also occur if the access key or secret access key is incorrect or if the region is spelled incorrectly, so please check.

Also, check to see if there are any access keys, etc. set in the shell environment variables.  
If it is set in a shell environment variable, it has a higher priority to be read than the credential file and should be removed.  
```
echo $AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
echo $AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
```
Deletion can be done with the following command.  
```
unset AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
unset AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
```

Invalid Access Key ID

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