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AWS CLI has my credentials but I don't have a credential file – Amazon web services

I can run the AWS CLI aws configure command and it lists my credentials. I even have a named profile I use.

However, my system does not have Users{profile}.awscredentials file. Where could my credentials be stored?

The following command returns this but ~/.aws/config is empty for all the accounts I have on this machine. I have hidden files shown.

$aws configure list
      Name                    Value             Type    Location
      ----                    -----             ----    --------
   profile                <not set>             None    None
access_key     ****************BBBB             shared-credentials-file
secret_key     ****************BBBB             shared-credentials-file
    region                us-east-1      config-file    ~/.aws/config
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  1. 0

    As others pointed out the location of your AWS credentials should be in %USERPROFILE%.aws

    Follow these steps and let’s see what you get

    1. Open terminal
    2. Run: cd %UserProfile%.aws
    3. Run: type credentials

    Another option is that you have added AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE environment variable. This changes the default location of the shared credentials file (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/topic/config-vars.html#the-shared-credentials-file). Try these steps:

    1. Open terminal
    2. Run: echo %AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE%
    3. Run: type %AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE%
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  2. 0

    I have solved this creating a profile:

    1. aws configure –profile {profile-name}
    2. set any values
    3. The /.aws/ folder have been created and now you can edit their files.
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