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I believe this is caused by having invalid credentials for your self-managed backend.

The error is not as clear on this as it could be though - opened <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/13007> to track improving the error message.

If you are seeing this even with valid credentials - would love any additional notes you might have in the issue!

This happens when I try to start a fresh project. I checked all the environment vars on my machine and non are set. Anything in particular I should grab for the issue?

Depends on your backend. You need the normal env vars / config files for AWS, GCP, Azure or whatever you're using. The credentials associated with various Pulumi provider objects are _not_ used for this step.

I’m using the native AWS config file is all

Oh I think I see what you’re saying. Let me see what’s what in my end