# Repository verification of s3 failing with IRSA

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/repository-verification-of-s3-failing-with-irsa/367122>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** snapshot-and-restore\
**Created:** [September 25, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/repository-verification-of-s3-failing-with-irsa/367122 "2024-09-25T17:55:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/repository-verification-of-s3-failing-with-irsa/367122/1 "2024-09-25T17:55:18Z")

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inital connection with IRSA following the documentation worked. Later the connection is failing and the authentication is falling back to default method rather than IRSA and hence failing.  
Restarting all the ES nodes is making it work again, but this might happen again  
ES version 8.15

looks like this issue: [Elasticsearch does not refresh AWS Web Identity Token file when changed on disk · Issue #101828 · elastic/elasticsearch · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/101828)