Amazon AWS tutorial - Cannot redirect to service provided destination - try using AWS keys for authentication or check destination URL

Question

I'm following the Amazon AWS tutorial and I have reached Step 6: Launch Amazon EC2 Instances Using Auto Scaling http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/gettingstarted/latest/wah-linux/

But when I run the launch command:

as-create-launch-config MyLC --image-id ami-7813e011 --instance-type t1.micro --group webappsecuritygroup --key mykeypair.pem

I get the following error:

 Cannot redirect to service provided destination - try using AWS keys for
 authentication (instead of X509/Private key) or check destination URL

What have I done wrong? I created the key as stated in the management console.

Thank you!

Answer 1

Ok I removed:

export AWS_AUTO_SCALING_URL=https://autoscaling.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com

and added:

export EC2_REGION=eu-west-1

in .profile and it worked like a charm!