s3-storage-wagon maven plugin and upload to S3 bucket - maven

Question

I need to upload my build artifact to S3 bucket. For this purpose, I'm trying to use s3-storage-wagon maven plugin
This is my configuration in pom.xml:
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>s3.artifacts.release</id>
<url>s3://${artifactrepo.url}/release</url>
</repository>
<snapshotRepository>
<id>s3.artifacts.snapshot</id>
<url>s3://${artifactrepo.url}/snapshot</url>
</snapshotRepository>
</distributionManagement>
<extensions>
<extension>
<groupId>com.gkatzioura.maven.cloud</groupId>
<artifactId>s3-storage-wagon</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</extension>
</extensions>
settings.xml
<server>
<id>s3.artifacts.release</id>
<username>Access key ID</username>
<password>Secret</password>
</server>
<server>
<id>s3.artifacts.snapshot</id>
<username>Access key ID</username>
<password>Secret</password>
</server>
During Maven deploy this plugin fails with the following error:
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.8.2:deploy (default-deploy) on project pipeline: Failed to retrieve remote metadata com.xxx:xxx:0.0.4-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml: Could not transfer metadata com.xxx:xxx:0.0.4-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml from/to s3.artifacts.snapshot (s3://my-backet/snapshot): Could not authenticate: Access Denied (Service: Amazon S3; Status Code: 403; Error Code: AccessDenied; Request ID: 8KJHKHFKHFGA48; S3 Extended Request ID: 2j/bW/INn+qCzVqwer+Fawv75qwerkUPmO7flQa8z34523445werrtwertGTs919tJpYoM=) -> [Help 1]
We are using GUI S3 client for Windows and are able to access the target S3 bucket without any issue. What may be wrong with our s3-storage-wagon maven plugin configuration?

Answer 1

Looks like your AWS credentials for S3 do not have upload (PutObject most likely) permission. The portion of the message telling you this is:
Could not authenticate: Access Denied (Service: Amazon S3;...
Or perhaps you need to setup your ~/.aws/credentials file so that the default profile is able to access the S3 bucket you are using.
If you need to use alternate profiles (the non-default profile in your ~/.aws/credentials file) you will likely need to specify the profile using one of the many ways AWS SDKs support this. I would start by trying AWS_PROFILE=my-profile such as the following (assuming bash):
AWS_PROFILE=my-profile mvn deploy
See https://github.com/gkatzioura/CloudStorageMaven/tree/master/S3StorageWagon#authentication for further info on how to provide credentials to this plugin.