Unable to create a bucket with awscli, but able to through the website interface

Question

When I try the single command: aws s3api create-bucket --bucket dskljfslkdjflksjdf2342 I get the error message:

An error occurred (SlowDown) when calling the CreateBucket operation (reached max retries: 4): Please reduce your request rate.

But I am able to create a bucket through the AWS website.

I have no idea why this is happening. I have been creating and deleting buckets all day (less than a hundred in the last 24 hours). And I have only 3 buckets right now.

Answer 1

Assuming you're trying that in the us-east-1 AWS region, it's probably because AWS currently has severe problems with S3 there. From their status page:

Amazon Simple Storage Service (N. Virginia)

Increased Error Rates

11:58 AM PDT We are investigating increased error rates for Amazon S3 requests in the US-EAST-1 Region.

12:21 PM PDT We can confirm that some customers are receiving throttling errors accessing S3. We are currently investigating the root cause.

12:38 PM PDT We continue to work towards resolving the increased throttling errors for Amazon S3 requests in the US-EAST-1 Region. We have identified the subsystem responsible for the errors, identified root cause and are now working to resolve the issue.