<ul>
<li>outline</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>Timestamp of Authentication tokens get failure because server time on local machine is out of sync.</p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>error message</li>
</ul>
<pre><code class="lang-plaintext">An error occurred (AuthFailure) when calling the DescribeInstances operation: AWS was not able to validate the provided access credentials
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>resolution (WSL, ubuntu)</li>
</ul>
<pre><code class="lang-plaintext">## chrony
apt -y install chrony
systemctl start chrony
systemctl enable chrony

## hwclock
hwclock -s
echo hwclock -s &gt;&gt; .bashrc

## ntpdate
apt install ntpdate -y
ntpdate -sb time.bora.net
echo ntpdate -sb time.bora.net &gt;&gt; .bashrc
</code></pre>


* outline
    

> Timestamp of Authentication tokens get failure because server time on local machine is out of sync.

* error message
    

```plaintext
An error occurred (AuthFailure) when calling the DescribeInstances operation: AWS was not able to validate the provided access credentials
```

* resolution (WSL, ubuntu)
    

```plaintext
## chrony
apt -y install chrony
systemctl start chrony
systemctl enable chrony

## hwclock
hwclock -s
echo hwclock -s >> .bashrc

## ntpdate
apt install ntpdate -y
ntpdate -sb time.bora.net
echo ntpdate -sb time.bora.net >> .bashrc
```

aws cli error (An error occurred (AuthFailure) AWS was not able to validate the provided access credentials)

aws cli error (An error occurred (AuthFailure) AWS was not able to val

AWS/AWS Command Line Interface

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