running git clone against AWS CodeCommits gets me a 403 error

Question

My local laptop is a Mac.

1. The ssh key is configured properly. This is the content of ~/.ssh/config

   Host barthea Hostname git-codecommit.us-east

Answer 1

In my case, I had a permission issue.

You need to need to attach the AWSCodeCommitFullAccess policy to your IAM user to give you access to CodeCommit.