botocore exceptions ClientError An error occurred AuthFailure when calling the DescribeInstances operation AWS was not able to validate the provided access credentials

Question

Hi Guys,

I am trying to launch one EC2 instance using Ansible Playbook. But it is showing me the below error.

The error was: botocore.exceptions.ClientError: An error occurred (AuthFailure) when calling the DescribeInstances operation: AWS was not able to validate the provided access credentials

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

There may be a problem with your credentials. So you have to check the credentials first. If your credentials are set correctly, then there may be a problem with your VM or system. So restart your VM. It will work.