s3cmd ‘ERROR: Test failed: 403 (AccessDenied): Access Denied’ and ‘ERROR: Config: verbosity level ’20’ is not valid’ [SOLVED]

I’m working on a project that includes sending data via Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and was having some problems configuring and using the s3cmd client.

The first thing I discovered about s3cmd is not to trust what it tells you when invoking s3cmd –configure to get things set up to use the bucket.

$ s3cmd -v --configure s3://some-bucket/some-prefix/

Enter new values or accept defaults in brackets with Enter.
Refer to user manual for detailed description of all options.

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