no need to do it again, I ahve all the settings in place, I'm sure it's not a settings thing

So just to correct myself and sum up, the credentials for AWS are only in the cloud_credentials_*

I doubled checked the credentials in the configurations, and they have full EC2 access

Those are different credentials.
You should have the aws info under:
cloud_credentials_key , cloud_credentials_secret and cloud_credentials_region
And the stuff added to the extra_vm_bash_script are the trains key and secret from your profile page in the UI.
I suggest you use the wizard again to run the task, this will make sure all the data is where it should be.