Assistance to create AWS resources using Terraform in AWS playground

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#1

I am writing to request assistance with an issue regarding AWS credentials when using Terraform.I am a Pro Plan subscriber.

I successfully retrieved the provided AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key for the designated user .

I configured the AWS CLI on Windows using the provided credentials and "us-east-1"region via aws configure.

I created my Terraform configuration file (.tf) for an EC2 resource, included the aws provider block specifying region = "us-east-1", and attempted to run the standard workflow.

    • terraform init (Completed successfully, provider downloaded).
  • terraform plan

When running terraform plan I receive an error indicating a credential issue

Could you please confirm the recommended and successful method for providing credentials to the Terraform AWS Provider in the Playground environment?

Any guidance or a working example configuration for creating a simple resource (like an S3 bucket or t2.micro EC2 instance) within the AWS Playground using Terraform would be highly appreciated.

#2

Terraform does not use the aws cli to create resources. It has a built-in AWS client, i.e. it would work even if you do not have aws cli installed.

You need to set the access keys as environment variables before you run terraform.

In a PowerShell console, replacing these example keys with the ones you got.
You can set the region in the provider configuration in the terraform configuration file.

$env:AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE"
$env:AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = "wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY"

terraform plan
#3

OK .Thanks Alistair.I will try it now.