WTF AWS CLI? "No credentials found in credential_source referenced in profile"

I was recently debugging a bash script that was failing on an EC2 instance. The script was fairly straight forward and was using the AWS CLI to make some changes to the AWS config, however it was failing with the error "Error when retrieving credentials from Ec2InstanceMetadata: No credentials found in credential_source referenced in profile"

The error implies that the correct credentials cannot be found via the Metadata API, right? Apparently not.

A Yealink T46S locked to Zoom! - How to unlock...ish

I recently purchased a Yealink T46S SIP phone from EBay as I wanted something with more line keys that supported Opus.

When it arrived it had an active account on it, which would potentially allow me to make outbound calls billed to the original owner. Unfortunately this is quite common for phones acquired on EBay and is incredibly poor practise.

The phone was quite well locked down with an admin password and the SIP signalling being sent via TLS, but a packet capture revealed the phone communicating with IPs belonging to Zoom.

Being an upstanding citizen I wanted to factory reset the phone so I could use it on my own service. The admin password prevented me from reseting the phone via the menu, but Google revealed that pressing the OK button for 5 seconds will factory reset the phone, or so I thought!