Credentials profile is invalid while trying to Connect to AWS

Describe the bug Installed AWS toolkit for VS Code, I have my config and credentials file with the following key and their values config

[default]
region = us-west-2

credentials

[default]
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<key>
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<secret>
AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=<token>

Clicking on Connect to AWS using default profile will pop an error dialogue that says Credential profile default is invalid To Reproduce

Expected behavior Connection successful to AWS

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10 Enterprise, Build 1803 (x64)
• Visual Studio Code Version: 1.36.1
• AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code Version: 1.0.0

Additional context Have tried using a named profile instead of default, the error persist

[eugenevd]

For what it’s worth, I’ve just had the same error as the OP

$ code --version
1.51.1
e5a624b788d92b8d34d1392e4c4d9789406efe8f
x64
$ aws --version
aws-cli/1.18.180 Python/3.6.9 Linux/5.4.0-53-generic botocore/1.19.20

AWS Toolkit 1.15.0

What solved the problem for me was to change the profile entries in ~/.aws/config from [profileX] to [profile profileX]

[awschristou]

Thank you for the confirmation @jmery

• #705 indeed will track overly aggressive caching of credentials (which requires restarting VS Code to flush)
• I’ve created #732 to track supporting upper case keys (and made a reference to this issue)

I will close this issue, as the work will be tracked in these separate issues.