Lab not working C2W1 - Data Engineering

C1_W2 assignment is not working. When I run the below command:

coder@b0fb3733abf8:~/project$ aws rds describe-db-instances --db-instance-identifier de-c1w2-rds --output text --query “DBInstance.Endpoint.Address”

I get the following error - Invalid endpoint: https://rds..amazonaws.com

Even when I add the region us-east-1, I get the new error saying - An error occurred (InvalidClientTokenId) when calling the DescribeDBInstances operation: The security token included in the request is invalid.

The issue seems to be there for a long time and others are also facing the same. Why isn’t it being resolved?

Same please help

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By rebooting the lab three times, it somehow worked probably but it is throwing a new error now:

An error occurred (AccessDenied) when calling the DescribeDBInstances operation: User: arn:aws:sts::561018442895:assumed-role/voclabs/user4777274=odfljfmsxepl is not authorized to perform: rds:DescribeDBInstances on resource: arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:561018442895:db:de-c1w2-rds with an explicit deny in an identity-based policy: arn:aws:iam::561018442895:policy/voc-cancel-cred (voc-cancel-cred)

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rebooted 4 times atleast .. didnt help.

Same here… support is nearly non-existent.

There are no local credentials set up.

Command: cat ~/.aws/credentials

default

aws_access_key_id =
aws_secret_access_key =
aws_session_token =

Trying to check AWS results in

Command: aws sts get-caller-identity

Invalid endpoint: https://sts..amazonaws.com

I can set the region to us-east-1 but I don’t have the aws_access_key_id, aws_secret_access_key, nor the aws_session_token to set.

If we had these, we could proceed. My opinion is that the lab was not working (the lab has an extensive history of not working, then working, then not working), so they likely removed the credentials to prevent AWS from being hammered with credential authentication requests.

We need immediate support.

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@Community-Team @Mubsi

Same, unable to proceed with the lab assignment

(I’m not a mentor for this course).

The course staff has been notified.

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Can you upvote the question so that it reaches to somebody incharge?

Thank you everyone for reporting this issue. The lab should be fixed now.

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its working now , however, where do i run the jupyter notebook, it gives me access denied to amazon sagemaker to reach to the notebook

@toxiccoder We did not configure Sagemaker for the Data Engineering labs and there’s no need for it. You can open and run the jupyter notebook directly in VS Code.

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This is working now. Thanks!

I was able to complete this activity yesterday. I have not checked to see if I could duplicate my experience a second time. However, the next activity, C1W3, is having problems on the AWS console. Cloudshell launches but has no permissions to execute the required commands.