Terraform not using provided AWS profile?

Question

I'll update later, but for now...

$ terraform --version
Terraform v0.12.17
+ provider.aws v3.23.0

I have an AWS profile set in my ./aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config files, like so...

~/.aws/credentials
[default]
aws_access_key_id=****
aws_secret_access_key=****

[myprofile]
aws_access_key_id=****
aws_secret_access_key=****

~/.aws/config
[default]
region=us-east-1
output=json

[profile myprofile]
region=us-east-1
output=json

In my Terraform plan, I have

provider "aws" {
  region  = "us-east-1"
  profile = "myprofile"
}

terraform {
  required_version = ">= 0.12.17, < 0.13"
}

resource "aws_vpc" "vpc" {
  cidr_block = "10.123.123.0/24"

  tags = {
    Name = "test_vpc"
  }
}

output "vpc_id" {
  value = aws_vpc.vpc.id
}

And I have a plan that creates a VPC, so I do

$ export AWS_PROFILE=myprofile
$ terraform apply
Apply complete! Resources: 1 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.

Outputs:

module_vpc_id = vpc-123456abced

As you can see the plan creates the VPC, however, the VPC doesn't get created in the myprofile account but in the default account. I know so because 1) I don't see it in the myprofile account, and 2) when I destroy the plan, it shows the owner_id as the default account number. Why?

Update: Note if I add the access_key and secret_key key/value pairs in my provider {} block, it creates the VPC in the correct account. Of course I don't wanna do this, but just wanted to prove that the script indeed works with the myprofile account.

Update: Note the following commands return nothing (blanks)

$ echo $AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
$ echo $AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

and running env doesn't show those variables.

Answer 1

Based on the comments.

The issue was caused by having AWS_PROFILE env variable set. According to TF docs, the variable has higher priority then Shared credentials/configuration file:

• Static credentials
• Environment variables
• Shared credentials/configuration file
• CodeBuild, ECS, and EKS Roles
• EC2 Instance Metadata Service (IMDS and IMDSv2)