An error occurred (OperationAborted) when calling the CreateBucket operation:

[blackrhino]

The following error appears when trying to create a bucket.

aws s3 mb s3://myapplebucket --region us-west-1
make_bucket failed: s3://myapplebucket An error occurred (OperationAborted) when calling the CreateBucket operation: A conflicting conditional operation is currently in progress against this resource. Please try again.

This is where a bucket with the same name was created and then an attempt made to recreate it with the same name. The original bucket was created using s3cmd, when creating it with aws s3 cli the error appeared. However, if you create, delete, and then recreate using just aws s3 cli commands the error does not appear.