Serverless Error: The security token included in the request is invalid

Question

when i type serverless deploy appear this error: ServerlessError: The security token included in the request is invalid.

Ruffian

Answer 1

I had to specify sls deploy --aws-profile in my serverless deploy commands like this:

sls deploy --aws-profile common

Pylle

Answer 2

Can you provide more information?

Make sure that you've got the correct credentials in ~/.aws/config and ~/.aws/credentials. You can set these up by running aws configure. More info here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html#cli-quick-configuration

Also make sure that the IAM user in question has as an attached security policy that allows access to everything you need, such as CloudFormation.

Danika

there was all fine, seems there are a problem with windows, i downloaded another console: "ubuntu bash for windows" and install again nodejs, npm and serverless in that console, then i created a project and typed "serverless deploy" and it work – Ruffian

Answer 3

Create a new user in AWS (don't use the root key).

In the SSH keys for AWS CodeCommit, generate a new Access Key.

Copy the values and run this:

serverless config credentials --overwrite --provider aws --key bar --secret foo

sls deploy

Sayer

Answer 4

In my case, I added region to the provider. I suppose it's not read from the credentials file.

provider:
  name: aws
  runtime: nodejs12.x
  region: cn-northwest-1

Jaunita

Answer 5

In my case it was missing the localstack entry in the serverless file. I had everything that should be inside it, but it was all inside custom (instead of custom.localstack).

Santiagosantillan

Answer 6

In my case, multiple credentials are stored in the ~/.aws/credentials file.

And serverless is picking the default credentials.

So, I kept the new credentials under [default] and removed the previous credentials. And that worked for me.

Mite

Hope these credentials are fake, As for the good practice we should not share aws secretes to any one – Interscholastic

They stole my credentials once by my mistake... They used it to mine crypto and I got billed 75K USD a day... Luckely for me AWS saved me with it <3 – Kath

Answer 7

to run the function from AWS you need to configure AWS with access_key_id and secret_access_key but to might get this error if you want to run the function locally so for that use this command

sls invoke local -f functionName

it will run the function locally not on aws

Reproduction

Answer 8

If none of these answers work, it's maybe because you need to add a provider in your serverless account and add your AWS keys.

Clevey

Answer 9

If your credentials on ~/.aws/credentials file are fine. Delete line on your .yml config file

region: us-east-1

and try again

Delusive