AWS Credential-less Discovery Fails with Credential Error for Member AccountsIssue <!-- /*NS Branding Styles*/ --> .ns-kb-css-body-editor-container { p { font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato; color: #000000; } span { font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato; color: #000000; } h2 { font-size: 24pt; font-family: Lato; color: black; } h3 { font-size: 18pt; font-family: Lato; color: black; } h4 { font-size: 14pt; font-family: Lato; color: black; } a { font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato; color: #00718F; } a:hover { font-size: 12pt; color: #024F69; } a:target { font-size: 12pt; color: #032D42; } a:visited { font-size: 12pt; color: #7057C7; } ul { font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato; } li { font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato; } img { display: block; max-width: ; width: auto; height: auto; } } AWS Credential-less Discovery was failing for member accounts with the error: The credentials can't be used with the account ID provided. This occurred despite correct setup on both the AWS and ServiceNow sides: However, discovery still failed to identify any resources in the member accounts. Release<!-- /*NS Branding Styles*/ --> .ns-kb-css-body-editor-container { p { font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato; color: #000000; } span { font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato; color: #000000; } h2 { font-size: 24pt; font-family: Lato; color: black; } h3 { font-size: 18pt; font-family: Lato; color: black; } h4 { font-size: 14pt; font-family: Lato; color: black; } a { font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato; color: #00718F; } a:hover { font-size: 12pt; color: #024F69; } a:target { font-size: 12pt; color: #032D42; } a:visited { font-size: 12pt; color: #7057C7; } ul { font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato; } li { font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato; } img { display: block; max-width: ; width: auto; height: auto; } } Any release Cause<!-- /*NS Branding Styles*/ --> .ns-kb-css-body-editor-container { p { font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato; color: #000000; } span { font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato; color: #000000; } h2 { font-size: 24pt; font-family: Lato; color: black; } h3 { font-size: 18pt; font-family: Lato; color: black; } h4 { font-size: 14pt; font-family: Lato; color: black; } a { font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato; color: #00718F; } a:hover { font-size: 12pt; color: #024F69; } a:target { font-size: 12pt; color: #032D42; } a:visited { font-size: 12pt; color: #7057C7; } ul { font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato; } li { font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato; } img { display: block; max-width: ; width: auto; height: auto; } } The issue was traced to corrupted cmdb_ci_cloud_service_account records, likely introduced during a clone. Specifically: - The discovery_credentials field contained the literal value null, not an empty string. - Because of this, credential resolution logic was bypassed. - As a result, no assume-role token was generated, and the API call failed. - Mid server logs during the same: 2025-06-26T11:28:39.231+0000 WARN (Worker-Interactive:HorizontalDiscoveryProbe-60e7853a93126e9011eefb0e1dba108d) [CloudServiceAccountCredentialUtil:251] resolveCredentialForAccount(): Inconsistent state: could not locate credential for service account with id '123456789' even though credential sys_id of 'null' was found. This caused misleading errors about credential/account mismatch, even though assume-role was configured correctly. Resolution<!-- /*NS Branding Styles*/ --> .ns-kb-css-body-editor-container { p { font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato; color: #000000; } span { font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato; color: #000000; } h2 { font-size: 24pt; font-family: Lato; color: black; } h3 { font-size: 18pt; font-family: Lato; color: black; } h4 { font-size: 14pt; font-family: Lato; color: black; } a { font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato; color: #00718F; } a:hover { font-size: 12pt; color: #024F69; } a:target { font-size: 12pt; color: #032D42; } a:visited { font-size: 12pt; color: #7057C7; } ul { font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato; } li { font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato; } img { display: block; max-width: ; width: auto; height: auto; } } - Open the list of cloud service accounts under the affected parent account. - For each member account, open the record, do show xml and check the credential field. - If the credential field shows a value of “null,” do the following: - Add any random valid credential and save. - Then remove the credential and save again. - This clears the invalid “null” value and resets the field to blank. - Run the AWS discovery using the master account instead of directly targeting member accounts. - After the run, verify that resources such as VMs and datacenters are discovered as expected.