How to Create & Switch between AWS profile easily

tanut aran
Feb 10, 2025

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Fir you go to AWS console of your user and set the credential

Note that you can see your credential only once.

Now set up the AWS CLI with :

aws configure --profile mynewprofile

Then export (this is for AWS CLI v2)

export AWS_PROFILE=mynewprofile

Then test the output with

aws s3 ls

Troubleshooting : AWS_PROFILE not working or not correct account

See the problem here

aws configure list

If you see ACCESS_KEY and SECRET_KEY is set differently from you account

You might have somthing in .zshrc , .bash_profile or other environment set. So it read the credential from there.

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tanut aran
tanut aran

Written by tanut aran

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