Friday, March 13, 2015

Amazon AWS value cannot be null, parameter name awsAccessKeyId

Today, none of my AWS Powershell scripts would work any more. They were all returning
... : Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: awsAccessKeyId

Coincidentally, my Visual Studio would keep on crashing upon startup. I eventually dug into the crash logs and realized that it had to do with the Amazon plugin as well.

Initially I thought it had to do with expired credentials or even the Windows Patch Tuesday.

However, I ended up reinstalling AWS Powershell (and with a much newer version) and the problem went away.