AWS CLI - couldn t connect to endpoint URL

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$ aws s3 ls

Could not connect to the endpoint URL: "https://s3.us-east-1a.amazonaws.com/"

What could be the problem?

Oct 5, 2018 in AWS by datageek
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4 answers to this question.

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You probably have something wrong in your default profile for the default region.

Check your file at ~/.aws/config, you have something like

[default] region=us-east-1a ...

Fix the region to region=us-east-1 and then the command will work correctly

 

answered Oct 5, 2018 by Archana
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selected May 27, 2019 by Kalgi
yes changed the region to us-east-1 from default region. Its working now. But not sure why it is not working with default region
region named us-east-1a is not a valid endpoint. The valid endpoint is us-east-1.
It works  for me and you are correct
Thanks alot it worked
Thanks It is work  and you are correct
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Valid endpoint names for this region:

  • s3.amazonaws.com

  • s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

  • s3-external-1.amazonaws.com

  • s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com**

  • account-id.s3-control.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

  • account-id.s3-control.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com**

answered Apr 8, 2019 by anonymous
Thanks, that was helpful.
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I am using AWS Powershell and was recieving same error. When I logged into powershell to use the list s3 buckets command I kept getting

$ aws s3 ls
"Could not connect to the endpoint URL: "https://s3.us-east-1a.amazonaws.com/"

I made a few AWS default profiles within C:\Users\USERNAME\.aws  Credentials file. From what I have gathered you are able to login and switch user profiles while in the same windows powershell session. Let's say for example in my credentials file I have 3 different profiles: test, test2, and account3

[default]
aws_access_key_id =
aws_secret_access_key =

[test]
aws_access_key_id =
aws_secret_access_key =

[test2]
aws_access_key_id =
aws_secret_access_key =

[account3]
aws_access_key_id =
aws_secret_access_key =

It seems you must specify the user profile in your command, since you have multiple profies setup in the credentials. Try adding your profile --profile 

$ aws s3 ls --profile test
$ aws s3 ls --profile test1
$ aws s3 ls --profile account3

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answered May 26, 2019 by jgentsch11
Hi @jgentsch, I didn't know this feature was available. Using s3 buckets from different profiles is pretty cool and might be very useful for people. I had the same error but was solved using @Archana's answer. I did not use multiple profiles. Shall try it sometime though. Thank:)
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I too had same issue but I was providing IAM user credential and that user didn,t had any permission,so I attached permission of full access and then it is working for me
answered Jul 23, 2019 by Archana
Hey @Archana, did you give full console and programmatic access?
yes that i have given,but here I am mentioning IAM policy so that IAM user can able to access resources.
Thanks for the response. I have given the FullAccess. Still stuck with the same error.

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