AWS lambda function does not work when attempting to work with credentials provided using the DefaultCredentialProvider.
I need to pass the credentials to S3 for it to run.
Code
def initializeAwsCredentials():AWSCredentials = {     var credentials: AWSCredentials  = null     try {       credentials = new ProfileCredentialsProvider().getCredentials     } catch {       case e: Exception => {         throw new AmazonClientException(           "Cannot load the credentials from the credential profiles file. " +             "Please make sure that your credentials file is at the correct " +             "location (~/.aws/credentials), and is in valid format.",           e);       }      }     return credentials   }   def buildS3API(credentials: AWSCredentials): AmazonS3 = {   new AmazonS3Client(credentials) }  // inside handle request val credentials = initializeAwsCredentials() println("Credetials have been retrieved successfully")  println("Build S3 API using the constructor provided") val s3 = buildS3API(credentials) s3.setRegion(region) println("S3 API is now available")  Error
{   "errorMessage": "Cannot load the credentials from the credential profiles file. Please make sure that your credentials file is at the correct location (~/.aws/credentials), and is in valid format.",   "errorType": "com.amazonaws.AmazonClientException",   "stackTrace": [     "example.Main$.initializeAwsCredentials(Hello.scala:52)",     "example.Main$.handleRequest(Hello.scala:125)",     "example.Main.handleRequest(Hello.scala)",     "sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)",     "sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)",     "sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)",     "java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)"   ],   "cause": {     "errorMessage": "java.lang.NullPointerException",     "errorType": "java.lang.NullPointerException",     "stackTrace": [       "com.amazonaws.auth.profile.ProfilesConfigFile.<init>(ProfilesConfigFile.java:143)",       "com.amazonaws.auth.profile.ProfilesConfigFile.<init>(ProfilesConfigFile.java:132)",       "com.amazonaws.auth.profile.ProfilesConfigFile.<init>(ProfilesConfigFile.java:99)",       "com.amazonaws.auth.profile.ProfileCredentialsProvider.getCredentials(ProfileCredentialsProvider.java:135)",       "example.Main$.initializeAwsCredentials(Hello.scala:45)",       "example.Main$.handleRequest(Hello.scala:125)",       "example.Main.handleRequest(Hello.scala)",       "sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)",       "sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)",       "sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)",       "java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)"     ]   } }  Update
Using the InstanceProfileCredentialsProvider instead throws the error:
val provider: InstanceProfileCredentialsProvider = new InstanceProfileCredentialsProvider() credentials = provider.getCredentials()  gives me the error:
"cause": {     "errorMessage": "Unable to load credentials from Amazon EC2 metadata service",     "errorType": "com.amazonaws.AmazonClientException",     "stackTrace": [       "com.amazonaws.auth.InstanceProfileCredentialsProvider.handleError(InstanceProfileCredentialsProvider.java:244)",       "com.amazonaws.auth.InstanceProfileCredentialsProvider.loadCredentials(InstanceProfileCredentialsProvider.java:225)",       "com.amazonaws.auth.InstanceProfileCredentialsProvider.getCredentials(InstanceProfileCredentialsProvider.java:124)",       "example.Main$.initializeAwsCredentials(Hello.scala:46)",       "example.Main$.handleRequest(Hello.scala:126)",       "example.Main.handleRequest(Hello.scala)",       "sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)",       "sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)",       "sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)",       "java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)"     ],     "cause": {       "errorMessage": "Connection refused (Connection refused)",       "errorType": "java.net.ConnectException",       "stackTrace": [         "java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)",         "java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:350)",         "java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206)",         "java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:188)",         "java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392)",         "java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:589)",         "sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:175)",         "sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:463)",         "sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:558)",         "sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:242)",         "sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:339)",         "sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:357)",         "sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(HttpURLConnection.java:1202)",         "sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect0(HttpURLConnection.java:1138)",         "sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:1032)",         "sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:966)",         "com.amazonaws.internal.EC2MetadataClient.readResource(EC2MetadataClient.java:90)",         "com.amazonaws.internal.EC2MetadataClient.getDefaultCredentials(EC2MetadataClient.java:55)",         "com.amazonaws.auth.InstanceProfileCredentialsProvider.loadCredentials(InstanceProfileCredentialsProvider.java:186)",         "com.amazonaws.auth.InstanceProfileCredentialsProvider.getCredentials(InstanceProfileCredentialsProvider.java:124)",         "example.Main$.initializeAwsCredentials(Hello.scala:46)",         "example.Main$.handleRequest(Hello.scala:126)",         "example.Main.handleRequest(Hello.scala)",         "sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)",         "sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)",         "sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)",         "java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)"       ]     }   } }  Configuring the following as environment variables when using lambda also fails:
Lambda was unable to configure your environment variables because the  environment variables you have provided contains reserved keys that are  currently not supported for modification. Reserved keys used in this  request: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY