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Developer Guide (API Version 2011-02-01)
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Common Errors

This section lists the common errors that all actions return. Any action-specific errors are listed in the topic for the action.

ErrorDescriptionHTTP Status Code

IncompleteSignature

The request signature does not conform to AWS standards.

400

InternalFailure

The request processing has failed due to some unknown error, exception, or failure.

500

InvalidAction

The action or operation requested is invalid.

400

InvalidClientTokenId

The X.509 certificate or AWS Access Key ID provided does not exist in our records.

403

InvalidParameterCombination

Parameters that must not be used together were used together.

400

InvalidParameterValue

A bad or out-of-range value was supplied for the input parameter.

400

InvalidQueryParameter

AWS query string is malformed, does not adhere to AWS standards.

400

MalformedQueryString

The query string is malformed.

404

MissingAction

The request is missing an action or operation parameter.

400

MissingAuthenticationToken

Request must contain either a valid (registered) AWS Access Key ID or X.509 certificate.

403

MissingParameter

An input parameter that is mandatory for processing the request is not supplied.

400

OptInRequired

The AWS Access Key ID needs a subscription for the service.

403

RequestExpired

Request is past expires date or the request date (either with 15 minute padding), or the request date occurs more than 15 minutes in the future.

400

ServiceUnavailable

The request has failed due to a temporary failure of the server.

503

Throttling

Request was denied due to request throttling.

400