Why Am I Getting "ERROR: Error Connecting to AWS Backend. You Are Not Authorized to Perform This Operation." When Fetching Instances from Amazon EC2?

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Issue

When fetching instances from the Amazon EC2 API, you may encounter the following error:

ERROR: "Error connecting to AWS backend. You are not authorized to perform this operation.", while: getting EC2 instances

Environment

  • Ansible Tower
  • Ansible Engine

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