When starting nuxeo with the environment variables AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID & AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, if AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID is empty when the platform starts, there's a generic exception :
2017-08-23 14:45:53,290 ERROR [localhost-startStop-1] [org.nuxeo.runtime.model.impl.RegistrationInfoImpl] Failed to register extension to: service:org.nuxeo.ecm.core.blob.BlobManager, xpoint: configuration in component: service:default-repository-config java.lang.RuntimeException: Missing AWS credentials and no instance role found at org.nuxeo.ecm.core.storage.sql.S3BinaryManager.setupCloudClient(S3BinaryManager.java:247) at org.nuxeo.ecm.blob.AbstractCloudBinaryManager.initialize(AbstractCloudBinaryManager.java:114) at org.nuxeo.ecm.core.blob.BlobManagerComponent.getBlobProvider(BlobManagerComponent.java:167) at org.nuxeo.ecm.core.blob.BlobManagerComponent.registerBlobProvider(BlobManagerComponent.java:121) at org.nuxeo.ecm.core.blob.BlobManagerComponent.registerContribution(BlobManagerComponent.java:98) at org.nuxeo.runtime.model.DefaultComponent.registerExtension(DefaultComponent.java:53) at org.nuxeo.runtime.model.impl.ComponentInstanceImpl.registerExtension(ComponentInstanceImpl.java:209) at org.nuxeo.runtime.model.impl.RegistrationInfoImpl.activate(RegistrationInfoImpl.java:462) at org.nuxeo.runtime.model.impl.ComponentManagerImpl.activateComponent(ComponentManagerImpl.java:547) at org.nuxeo.runtime.model.impl.ComponentManagerImpl.activateComponents(ComponentManagerImpl.java:524) at org.nuxeo.runtime.model.impl.ComponentManagerImpl.start(ComponentManagerImpl.java:787) at org.nuxeo.runtime.osgi.OSGiRuntimeService.startComponents(OSGiRuntimeService.java:460) at org.nuxeo.runtime.osgi.OSGiRuntimeService.frameworkEvent(OSGiRuntimeService.java:475) at org.nuxeo.osgi.OSGiAdapter.fireFrameworkEvent(OSGiAdapter.java:232) at org.nuxeo.osgi.application.loader.FrameworkLoader.doStart(FrameworkLoader.java:226) at org.nuxeo.osgi.application.loader.FrameworkLoader.start(FrameworkLoader.java:125) at org.nuxeo.runtime.deployment.NuxeoStarter.start(NuxeoStarter.java:120) at org.nuxeo.runtime.deployment.NuxeoStarter.contextInitialized(NuxeoStarter.java:93) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:5068) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5584) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:147) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:899) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:875) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:652) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:679) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1966) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
It may be useful to throw the cause of the exception (the original AmazonClientException).