Trying to use a service account on my aws ec2 instance

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

@Ron_Jarrell

It was working because the bucket had public read on it. So with no auth, it could still read and list. Writing failed. In fact, AWS specifically complains in the response that anonymous access is forbidden.

OK.

@Ron_Jarrell

No Authorization header if you set env_auth to false

That is probably expected - if you didn't supply any auth in the config then you'll need to set env_auth true. env is the general environment, so environment variables, config files or EC2 metadata server.

@Ron_Jarrell

Setting it to true makes it do the query properly when it falls through everything else.

Sorry, I mis-understood your previous statement! Yes you need to set env_auth true if you want to use the metadata server.

Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars). Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step
\ "false"
2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM)
\ "true"
env_auth> 1