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AWS CLI permissions error? when running "aws ec2 describe-instances --output text > ec2s.txt"
Hi re:Post,
I have received what I think is a permissions error/issue when running this command (Thanks Gary!) from AWS CLI:
aws ec2 describe-instances --output text > ec2s.txt
Full text below:
[cloudshell-user@ip-10-132-44-57 ~]$ aws ec2 describe-instances --output text > ec2s.txt
Error when retrieving credentials from container-role: Error retrieving metadata: Received non 200 response 500 from container metadata: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>500 - Internal Server Error</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>500 - Internal Server Error</h1>
</body>
</html>
[cloudshell-user@ip-10-132-44-57 ~]$
Screenshot below:
Thank you for your time and help.
Best Regards,
Donald
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Hi Donald,
Thanks for posting your questions here. I myself have experienced this error.
This has been previously asked too, did you get a chance to look at this re:Post discussion
Let me know if this doesn't help.
Happy to assist further.
Abhishek
For other people who might have the same issue. I got that error this morning and it seems to be a permission issue with cloudshell itself, when either cloudshell:PutCredentials or cloudshell:ApproveCommand is missing. Adding cloudshell:* solves it.
answered a year ago
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Hi Abhishek - thank you for your quick reply and help! My session has not expired so it must be a permissions issue. I'm sure I don't have AWS Admin access or access to CLI. Do you happen to know what should permissions I need to execute on CLI? I will ping our AWS Admin but any info I can give him to enable this would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
That looks like an internal issue with the cloudshell instance.
Sorry for my delayed response and by now you'd have figured out that this doesn't seem to be a permission issue but rather a temporary issue with that cloudshell session. If you see this frequently and have access to create support case, please report this to AWS support.