AWS S3 CLI - Could not connect to the endpoint URL

$ aws s3 ls

Could not connect to the endpoint URL: "https://s3.us-east-1a.amazonaws.com/"

What could be the problem?

You probably have something wrong in your default profile for the default region.

Check your file at ~/.aws/config, you have something like

[default]
region=us-east-1a
...

Fix the region to region=us-east-1 and then the command will work correctly

If none of solutions given above works,also check your permissions and firewall settings. In my case adding proxy environment variables did the job.

For Linux or mac

$ export HTTP_PROXY=http://<YOUR PROXY IP>:<PORT>

$ export HTTPS_PROXY=http://<YOUR PROXY IP>:<PORT>

For Windows

set HTTP_PROXY=http://<YOUR PROXY IP>:<PORT>

set HTTPS_PROXY=http://<YOUR PROXY IP>:<PORT>

first you use 'aws configure' then input the access key, and secret key, and the region. the region you input would be important for this problem. try to input something like 's3.us-east-1', not 's3.us-east-1a'. it will solve the issue.

Some AWS services are just available in specific regions that do not match your actual region. If this is the case you can override the standard setting by adding the region to your actual cli command.

This might be a handy solution for people that do not want to change their default region in the config file. IF your general config file is not set: Please check the suggestions above.

In this example the region is forced to eu-west-1 (e.g. Ireland):

aws s3 ls --region=eu-west-1

Tested and used with aws workmail to delete users:

aws workmail delete-user --region=eu-west-1 --organization-id [org-id] --user-id [user-id]

I derived the idea from this thread and it works perfect for me - so I wanted to share it. Hope it helps!