I’m getting this error on build failed during stage ‘building site’: Environment variable ‘AWS_ACCESS_KEY’ isn’t available for direct interaction locally, I have this key in a .env file, but Im not pushing it to repository. How to fix this? Thanks

Hi, @Charterfront , and welcome to our Netlify community site. :+1: Have you tried adding this as an environment variable in the Netlify UI? That keeps it out of your repo and still allow the Netlify build system to use it. If that doesn’t resolve the issue and/or there are other questions, please…

Hi, @Charterfront , would you please send us a link to the deploy with that error?

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Thanks for sending that over! I believe you’re running into this because AWS_ is a reserved prefix for environment variables. More from @Dennis here: [image] Is it possible to use Amazon Aurora with Netlify Lambdas? Support With regards to env vars, yes, AWS_ prefixed vars…

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Charterfront February 27, 2020, 9:31am 3

Hi, that’s exactly what I’ve done, and why I’m getting that error. When I remove it from the Netlify UI build & deploy settings, it becomes ok again

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