Why are no Amazon S3 authentication handlers ready?

Question

I have my $AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and $AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables set properly, and I run this code:

import boto
conn = boto.connect_s3()
         


        

Answer 1

I had previously used s3-parallel-put successfully but it inexplicably stopped working, giving the error above. This despite having exported the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY.

The solution was to specify the the credentials in the boto config file:

$ nano ~/.boto

Enter the credentials like so:

[Credentials]
aws_access_key_id = KEY_ID
aws_secret_access_key = SECRET_ACCESS_KEY