This is a standard install . These credentials work on the old server and they work on the new server using s3cmd, but when I do a discourse restore to try to get a list of backups, I get Error retrieving instance profile credentials: Failed to open TCP connection to 169.254.169.254:80 (execution ex…

Trouble with s3: Failed to open TCP connection to 169.254.169.254 due to missing secret access key

pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) March 23, 2025, 4:18pm 3

OMG. I thought I was going crazy.

I had

DISCOURSE_S3_SECRET_ACCESS=xxx

rather than

DISCOURSE_S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=xxx

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