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EKS could not get token: NoCredentialProviders: no valid providers in chain. Deprecated.

If you are getting the following error when you try to execute the kubectl command.

could not get token: NoCredentialProviders: no valid providers in chain. Deprecated.
	For verbose messaging see aws.Config.CredentialsChainVerboseErrors
Unable to connect to the server: getting credentials: exec: exit status 1

It means you have to load you AWS profile before you running the kubectl command.

export AWS_PROFILE=myprofile 

Why is that? because you have to get your AWS authenticated.