Kay Johansen

I have the same problem, trying to run on EC2, following the instructions [here](https://aws-otel.github.io/docs/setup/build-collector-as-rpm). I'm running `v0.28.0` of the aws-otel-collector. I tried all three suggestions by @rapphil to specify credentials,...

I was able to find a good example policy [here](https://aws-otel.github.io/docs/setup/ecs/create-iam-policy); using an IAM role for the EC2 instance, I am able to send metrics to CloudWatch.

@itadventurer Your comment was the only thing that worked for me, thank you!