title: connect to aws using boto - credentials error
body: <p>Im trying to connect to aws using boto but Im having an error.</p>
  
  <p>First, I created an aws account and then in managment console I clicked in IAM and I created a new user.  </p>
  
  <p>This user have associated a AWS_ACESS_KEY_ID and a AWS_SECRET_ACESS_KEY.</p>
  
  <p>And then I stored this user credentials in /etc/boto.cfg and in ~/.boto, like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[Credentials]
  aws_acess_key_id = ...
  aws_secret_acess_key = ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now Im trying to connect to boto but Im having this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "send.py", line 12, in &lt;module&gt;
      s3 = boto.connect_s3()
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/boto-2.36.0-py2.7.egg/boto/__init__.py", line 141, in connect_s3
      return S3Connection(aws_access_key_id, aws_secret_access_key, **kwargs)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/boto-2.36.0-py2.7.egg/boto/s3/connection.py", line 190, in __init__
      validate_certs=validate_certs, profile_name=profile_name)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/boto-2.36.0-py2.7.egg/boto/connection.py", line 569, in __init__
      host, config, self.provider, self._required_auth_capability())
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/boto-2.36.0-py2.7.egg/boto/auth.py", line 985, in get_auth_handler
      'Check your credentials' % (len(names), str(names)))
  boto.exception.NoAuthHandlerFound: No handler was ready to authenticate. 1 handlers were checked. ['HmacAuthV1Handler'] Check your credentials
  
  boto [DEBUG]:Retrieving credentials from metadata server.
  [ERROR]:Caught exception reading instance data
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Do you see what can be wrong here?</p>