[Help wanted]: error configuring S3 Backend:

[masoudkavehie]

Before anything

• I searched for the problem and don't found the answer.

What is the problem?

When I was trying to run terraform init after ive added backend s3 on my provider file i got this error .why it happend for me .

Logs (optional).

Initializing the backend...
╷
│ Error: error configuring S3 Backend: no valid credential sources for S3 Backend found.
│ 
│ Please see https://www.terraform.io/docs/language/settings/backends/s3.html
│ for more information about providing credentials.
│ 
│ Error: NoCredentialProviders: no valid providers in chain. Deprecated.
│ 	For verbose messaging see aws.Config.CredentialsChainVerboseErrors
│

[Imany-apk]

To use your IAM credentials to authenticate the Terraform AWS provider, you should set the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables of your own.

Did you set them?

[masoudkavehie]

yes i did it

[Shayan-Ghani]

I assume you're using Localstack. In this case, you won't need s3 as localstack, as the name implies, is for testing in the local environment. However, you can create a module and add the terraform block to its provider.tf file. This solves this error but is not best practice and you'll get a warning. you can check out a repository of mine in which I have done the exact thing. it might help you.