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 Note that you do not have to hard code your `aws.access_key_id` or `aws.secret_access_key`
-as they will be retrieved from the enviornment variables `AWS_ACCESS_KEY` and `AWS_SECRET_KEY`.
+as they will be retrieved from the environment variables `AWS_ACCESS_KEY` and `AWS_SECRET_KEY`.
 
 In addition to the above top-level configs, you can use the `region_config`
 method to specify region-specific overrides within your Vagrantfile. Note