Boto3 Error: botocore.exceptions.NoCredentialsError: Unable to locate credentials

Question

When I simply run the following code, I always gets this error.

s3 = boto3.resource(\'s3\')
    bucket_name = \"python-sdk-sample-%s\" % uuid.uuid4()
    pri         


        

Answer 1

I had the same issue and found out that the format of my ~/.aws/credentials file was wrong.

It worked with a file containing:

[default]
aws_access_key_id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
aws_secret_access_key=YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Note that the profile name must be "[default]". Some official documentation make reference to a profile named "[credentials]", which did not work for me.