Is Github CI currently having problems? "instance profile credentials"

[jrochkind]

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What GitHub Actions topic or product is this about?

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Apparently this is the only support i get or only way to file a trouble ticket, with a free account?

I am getting:

Error retrieving instance profile credentials: Aws::InstanceProfileCredentials::TokenRetrivalError

When i try to run my CI. I have never gotten this before, don't think anything has changed that should cause it. So my guess is it's a problem on github's end, although status shows nothing.

i do not believe my code in CI should even be using AWS, although i could be wrong.

Any ideas or confirmation?

My account is free and my code open source, so here's the failing action: https://github.com/sciencehistory/scihist_digicoll/actions/runs/23202807410/job/67432955357

[Smikalo]

Doesn’t look like a GitHub-wide CI outage to me. GitHub Status is showing no current Actions incident, and that error usually means some AWS SDK code is running without credentials and is falling back to instance metadata lookup rather than GitHub itself being broken. Your public job page shows the run failed, but the detailed logs are hidden unless signed in, so I can’t confirm the exact calling step from the outside.

So I’d suspect something in your app/test setup is touching AWS indirectly (for example via an SDK, S3 storage config, or env var change) rather than a GitHub Actions platform problem

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