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Hello, i am trying to create a new project using pulumi but for some reason it is not picking up my aws credentials. When deploying an existing project it reads creds fine. Any ideas?

How are you getting the creds in? AWS_PROFILE? `aws:` config values? AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID/AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY? Are you running in a container?

they should be getting read from my aws credentials file

You could also set up an AWS provider manually, using the variables explicitly instead of implicitly, and see if that works. If it does, then you know that some other credentials are being picked up by the default provider.

The same thing was happening to me. I had to set up the environment variables for AWS and it worked for me.

Thing is it works for me on existing projects I've deployed but not while creating a new project 

Yeah, that happened to me too, my previous projects were just fine

hmm unfortunately setting up env varibales didnt cut it for my case :slightly_frowning_face:

You're using code like this?
```cons aws = new aws.Provider("us-west-2", {
  region: "us-west-2",
  accessKey: envVarAccessKey,
  secretKey: emvVarSecretKey
});```

Or if they're in a profile, you can use
```cons aws = new aws.Provider("us-west-2", {
  region: "us-west-2",
  profile: profileName
});```

Ah. So to work around, can OP use a non-default provider? Or set values explicitly through config or constructor?

Npm version? I thought pulumi latest was 3.34.0 ?

<https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-aws/releases/tag/v5.7.2>