Error: No valid credential sources found for AWS Provider.

[florin-waterford]

Terraform randomly fails to read the AWS credentials from ~/.aws.

Terraform Version

Terraform v0.12.24

(macOS 10.15)

Terraform Configuration Files

variable "account" {
  default = "123123123123"
}

variable "region" {
  default = "eu-east-1"
}

variable "bucket-region" {
  default = "us-east-1"
}

Debug Output

$ terraform init

2020/04/26 18:20:39 [INFO] Terraform version: 0.12.24  
2020/04/26 18:20:39 [INFO] Go runtime version: go1.13.8
2020/04/26 18:20:39 [INFO] CLI args: []string{"/usr/local/bin/terraform", "init"}
2020/04/26 18:20:39 [DEBUG] Attempting to open CLI config file: /Users/USER/.terraformrc
2020/04/26 18:20:39 [DEBUG] File doesn't exist, but doesn't need to. Ignoring.
2020/04/26 18:20:39 [INFO] CLI command args: []string{"init"}
2020/04/26 18:20:39 [TRACE] ModuleInstaller: installing child modules for . into .terraform/modules
Initializing modules...
2020/04/26 18:20:39 [DEBUG] Module installer: begin module1
2020/04/26 18:20:39 [TRACE] ModuleInstaller: Module installer: module1 <nil> already installed in ../modules/module1
2020/04/26 18:20:39 [TRACE] modsdir: writing modules manifest to .terraform/modules/modules.json

Initializing the backend...
2020/04/26 18:20:39 [TRACE] Meta.Backend: built configuration for "s3" backend with hash value 782968548
2020/04/26 18:20:39 [TRACE] Meta.Backend: backend has not previously been initialized in this working directory
2020/04/26 18:20:39 [DEBUG] New state was assigned lineage "12312312-1231-1231-1231-123123123123"
2020/04/26 18:20:39 [TRACE] Meta.Backend: moving from default local state only to "s3" backend
2020/04/26 18:20:39 [INFO] Setting AWS metadata API timeout to 100ms
2020/04/26 18:20:40 [INFO] Ignoring AWS metadata API endpoint at default location as it doesn't return any instance-id
2020/04/26 18:20:40 [INFO] Attempting to use session-derived credentials

Error: No valid credential sources found for AWS Provider.
        Please see https://terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/index.html for more information on
        providing credentials for the AWS Provider

Expected Behavior

It should read credentials from ~/.aws.

Actual Behavior

It can't find the credentials.

Steps to Reproduce

terraform init

Additional Context

This breaks every once in a while. I'm not sure when. Removing the .terraform directory doesn't help. Reinstalling Terraform doesn't fix it. It works if I copy the working project in another directory and run terraform init, it works, but I'd rather not do that every time TF breaks.

Setting the AWS_PROFILE, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables fixes this, but it should not be needed.

[danieldreier]

@florin-waterford I'm going to categorize this as an enhancement request for the AWS Terraform provider, rather than in core. The HashiBot will shortly migrate it over to the AWS provider.

[ghost]

This issue has been automatically migrated to hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws#13057 because it looks like an issue with that provider. If you believe this is not an issue with the provider, please reply to hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws#13057.

[ghost]

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