# AWS vpc creation problem on Mac OS X **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** ubuntu, aws\ **Created:** [January 19, 2016, 8:21am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/aws-vpc-creation-problem-on-mac-os-x/20267 "2016-01-19T08:21:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 8:21am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/aws-vpc-creation-problem-on-mac-os-x/20267/1 "2016-01-19T08:21:25Z")
Hi, I have a problem while creating aws vpc from mac os x but the exact same command/role is working from ubuntu. Steps that I have already taken on Mac OS X: - update the time using ntp - upgrade the ansible to version 2 - downgrade the ansible to version 1.9.1,1.9.2,1.9.3 and 1.9.4 - boto version is 2.38.0 With all above changes, I am getting this error: ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts aws.yml -vvvv Using /Users/arbab/ansible2/aws/ansible.cfg as config file 1 plays in aws.yml PLAY \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* TASK [vpc : Creating an AWS VPC inside mentioned Region] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* task path: /Users/arbab/ansible2/aws/roles/vpc/tasks/main.yml:2 ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: arbabnazar 127.0.0.1 EXEC ( umask 22 && mkdir -p “$( echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1453191395.76-205801730631196 )” && echo “$( echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1453191395.76-205801730631196 )” ) 127.0.0.1 PUT /var/folders/rq/yhlwx3c971x6p88qwmvhpg600000gn/T/tmpoyL88U TO /Users/arbab/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1453191395.76-205801730631196/ec2\_vpc 127.0.0.1 EXEC LANG=en\_US.UTF-8 LC\_ALL=en\_US.UTF-8 LC\_MESSAGES=en\_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /Users/arbab/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1453191395.76-205801730631196/ec2\_vpc; rm -rf “/Users/arbab/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1453191395.76-205801730631196/” \> /dev/null 2\>&1 An exception occurred during task execution. The full traceback is: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/Users/arbab/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1453191395.76-205801730631196/ec2\_vpc”, line 2867, in main() File “/Users/arbab/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1453191395.76-205801730631196/ec2\_vpc”, line 700, in main (vpc\_dict, new\_vpc\_id, subnets\_changed, igw\_id, changed) = create\_vpc(module, vpc\_conn) File “/Users/arbab/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1453191395.76-205801730631196/ec2\_vpc”, line 338, in create\_vpc previous\_vpc = find\_vpc(module, vpc\_conn, id, cidr\_block) File “/Users/arbab/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1453191395.76-205801730631196/ec2\_vpc”, line 198, in find\_vpc previous\_vpcs = vpc\_conn.get\_all\_vpcs(None, {‘cidr’: cidr, ‘state’: ‘available’}) File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/boto/vpc/ **init**.py”, line 111, in get\_all\_vpcs return self.get\_list(‘DescribeVpcs’, params, [(‘item’, VPC)]) File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/boto/connection.py”, line 1186, in get\_list raise self.ResponseError(response.status, response.reason, body) boto.exception.EC2ResponseError: EC2ResponseError: 401 Unauthorized \ `AuthFailure`AWS was not able to validate the provided access credentials2318e170-a400-499c-8713-4c0b3ec1850d fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! =\> {“changed”: false, “failed”: true, “invocation”: {“module\_name”: “ec2\_vpc”}, “parsed”: false} PLAY RECAP \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* 127.0.0.1 : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/aws-vpc-creation-problem-on-mac-os-x/20267/2 "2016-01-21T17:06:10Z")
@Brain, your valuable feedback here please? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/aws-vpc-creation-problem-on-mac-os-x/20267/3 "2016-01-25T16:53:03Z")
I have figured out that there was an AWS credentials inside my environment which was not valid. I run the **env** command to find this.