Switching between AWS accounts

Question

I am using boto3 in VSCode for some automation in AWS. I have a default profile(which is my own) configured using "aws configure". Now I want to switch from my personal account to my company profile and have used the same command again to change the configuration. The problem is the configuration changed and is reflected in the config file but I cannot access my company profile as my personal account is still active even after the change. Is there a way to switch between accounts without this problem?

Answer 1

for some reasons you have values in environment variables - they override the values from profile (see env from Type column). This is what I get:

PS C:\> aws configure list
  Name                    Value             Type    Location
  ----                    -----             ----    --------
  profile                <not set>          None    None
access_key     ****************GOCJ shared-credentials-file
secret_key     ****************DMq1 shared-credentials-file
region                us-west-2      config-file    ~/.aws/config

PS C:\> aws configure list --profile govcloud
  Name                    Value             Type    Location
  ----                    -----             ----    --------
  profile                 govcloud          manual    --profile
access_key     ****************YXPK shared-credentials-file
secret_key     ****************J/77 shared-credentials-file
region            us-gov-west-1      config-file    ~/.aws/config

note, shared-credentials-file where you have env