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Use this when Amazon gives you an "Encoded authorization failure message" and you need to turn it into something readable. If you only get a request id... you're out of luck.
function decode-authorization-failure-message {
if [ $# -ne 1 ] || [ "$1" = -h ] || [ "$1" = --help ]; then
cat <<'EOT'
Usage: decode-authorization-failure-message <message>
Use this when Amazon gives you an "Encoded authorization failure message" and
you need to turn it into something readable.
EOT
return 1
fi
aws sts decode-authorization-message --encoded-message "$1" |
jq '.["DecodedMessage"]' |
sed 's/\\"/"/g' |
sed 's/^"//' |
sed 's/"$//' |
jq
}
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