AWS CLI S3 A client error (403) occurred when calling the HeadObject operation: Forbidden

Question

I\'m trying to setup a Amazon Linux AMI(ami-f0091d91) and have a script that runs a copy command to copy from a S3 bucket.

 aws --debug s3 cp s3://aws-codede         


        

Answer 1

I was getting this error message due to my EC2 instance's clock being out of sync.

I was able to fix on Ubuntu using this:

sudo ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com
sudo apt-get install ntp