python - 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 configure

I'm using Python 3.4 and I want to use AWS CLI Keyring to encrypt my credentials..

Answer 1

I think there is something missing from the AWS documentation in http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/setup-awscli.html, it did not mention that you should edit the file ~/.aws/config to add your username profile. There are two ways to do this:

1. edit ~/.aws/config or

2. aws configure --profile "your username"