Terraform error configuring AWS provider backend issue - terraform-provider-aws

Question

i've had this issue in terraform with backend configuration. I am getting this error when running Terraform plan.
Error: error configuring Terraform AWS Provider: no valid credential sources for Terraform AWS Provider found.
│
│ Please see https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws
│ for more information about providing credentials.
│
│ Error: failed to refresh cached credentials, no EC2 IMDS role found, operation error ec2imds: GetMetadata, request send failed, Get "http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/": dial tcp 169.254.169.254:80: i/o timeout
with provider["registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/aws"].west,
│ on providers.tf line 5, in provider "aws":
│ 5: provider "aws" {
│
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Here is the code, there are no google pages to help with this error. I will appreciate any help and I'm forever grateful thanks
terraform {
`enter code here`backend "remote" {
organization = "Gnome2"
workspaces {
name = "terraform-begin"
}
}
required_providers {
aws = {
source = "hashicorp/aws"
version = "4.8.0"
}
}
}
provider "aws" {
region = "us-east-1"
}
provider "aws" {
alias = "west"
region = "us-west-1"
}
module "vpc" {
source = "terraform-aws-modules/vpc/aws"
providers = {
aws = aws.west
}
name = "my-vpc"
cidr = "10.0.0.0/16"
azs = ["us-east-1a", "us-east-1b", "us-east-1c"]
private_subnets = ["10.0.1.0/24", "10.0.2.0/24", "10.0.3.0/24"]
public_subnets = ["10.0.101.0/24", "10.0.102.0/24", "10.0.103.0/24"]
enable_nat_gateway = true
enable_vpn_gateway = true
tags = {
Terraform = "true"
Environment = "dev"
}
}

Answer 1

Can you use your AWS CLI to connect to your AWS account? like listing your AWS s3 buckets? based on the error I think you didn't configure your AWS by doing aws configure on your CLI. which will require you to have an access key id and secret for the setup.

Answer 2

You must configure AWS' credentials in the Terraform Cloud. In the Terraform Cloud platform, go to Settings -> Variable Sets -> Create Variable Set, put some "name", check "Apply to all workspaces in this organization" and click on buttom "Add Variable". Select "Environment variable" option, and inform the key=AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and value="Access key ID". The "Acces key ID" is the ID from AWS credential(IAM). Check the "sensitive" checkbox and click on buttom "Add Variable". So, retry this process to add a new Environment variable with the key/value pair AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY/Secret access key of AWS credential. Finally, click on buttom "Create variable set". Retry the terraform plan command. See more in https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials/aws-get-started/aws-remote#set-workspace-variables