AWS The config profile MyName could not be found

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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

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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

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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

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I think there is something missing from the AWS documentation in http   docs aws amazon com lambda latest dg setup-awscli html  it did not mention that you should edit the file    aws config to add your username profile  There are two ways to do this    edit    aws config or aws configure --profile  your username

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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

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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

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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

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Use as follows   profilename  region us-east-1 output text   Example cmd  aws --profile myname CMD opts

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In my case  I had the variable named  quot AWS PROFILE quot  on Environment variables with an old value

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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

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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

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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

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

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