[python] AWS : The config profile (MyName) could not be found

Every time I want to config something with AWS I get the following error :

"The config profile (myname) could not be found"

like : aws configure

I'm using Python 3.4 and I want to use AWS CLI Keyring to encrypt my credentials..

In my case, I had the variable named "AWS_PROFILE" on Environment variables with an old value.

In my case, I was using the Docker method for the AWS CLI tool, and I hadn't read the instructions far enough to realize that I had to make my credentials directory visible to the docker container. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/install-cliv2-docker.html

Instead of

docker run --rm -it amazon/aws-cli:latest command args...

I needed to do:

docker run --rm -it -v ~/.aws:/root/.aws amazon/aws-cli:latest command args...

Did you actually set up your specific user? The walkthrough setup guide in AWS explains how to set a default user, and then how to set up additional users. If you didn't complete the full setup, you'll just have a default block and your myName won't have been created..

can you check your config file under ~/.aws/config- you might have an invalid section called [myname], something like this (this is an example)

[default]
region=us-west-2
output=json

[myname]
region=us-east-1
output=text

Just remove the [myname] section (including all content for this profile) and you will be fine to run aws cli again

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

Make sure you are in the correct VirtualEnvironment. I updated PyCharm and for some reason had to point my project at my VE again. Opening the terminal, I was not in my VE when attempting zappa update (and got this error). Restarting PyCharm, all back to normal.

I ran into this problem when I moved to a new machine, carrying with me my AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE environment variable, but not my ~/.aws directory. I couldn't get any awscli commands to work until I unset that variable or properly configured the named profile. But even the aws configure command was broken, making things a bit tricky. Assuming you have a Unix-like shell handy:

• To determine what AWS-specific variables you might have in your session: env | grep AWS_
  • if you don't see AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE listed here, this answer is not applicable to you.
• To temporarily remove the default profile: unset AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE
• To configure that default profile: aws --profile foo configure
• To reset the default profile variable: exec $SHELL
• To test your new setup: aws iam get-user

Was facing similar issue and found below link more helpful then the answers provided here. I guess this is due to the updates to AWS CLI since the answers are provided.

https://serverfault.com/questions/792937/the-config-profile-adminuser-could-not-be-found

Essentially it helps to create two different files (i.e. one for the general config related information and the second for the credentials related information).

Use as follows

[profilename]
region=us-east-1
output=text

Example cmd

aws --profile myname CMD opts

Working with profiles is little tricky. Documentation can be found at: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/topic/config-vars.html (But you need to pay attention on env variables like AWS_PROFILE)

Using profile with aws cli requires a config file (default at ~/.aws/config or set using AWS_CONFIG_FILE). A sample config file for reference: `

[profile PROFILE_NAME]
 output=json
 region=us-west-1
 aws_access_key_id=foo
 aws_secret_access_key=bar

`

Env variable AWS_PROFILE informs AWS cli about the profile to use from AWS config. It is not an alternate of config file like AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID/AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY are for ~/.aws/credentials.

Another interesting fact is if AWS_PROFILE is set and the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables are set, then the credentials provided by AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY will override the credentials located in the profile provided by AWS_PROFILE.