AWS : The config profile (MyName) could not be found

Question

Every time I want to config something with AWS I get the following error :

\"The config profile (myname) could not be found\"

like : aws confi

Answer 1

Was facing similar issue and found below link more helpful then the answers provided here. I guess this is due to the updates to AWS CLI since the answers are provided.

https://serverfault.com/questions/792937/the-config-profile-adminuser-could-not-be-found

Essentially it helps to create two different files (i.e. one for the general config related information and the second for the credentials related information).