Yes, I’m not surprised that if you have trouble using nsight systems cli, you will have trouble using nvprof.
I wasn’t suggesting that wishing was going to improve anything. Let me give you an example. In an academic setting, there is someone (e.g. sysadmins) that control the computing resource. Students with difficulty may be able to get sysadmins to make changes to the computing resource, if the case is properly presented. This sort of thing happens all the time.
I don’t know the details of your AWS usage, but if you don’t control the environment then I imagine someone else does. If I were working in that environment, I would try to open discussions with the people in control of the environment to see if I could get the development situation improved.
That’s what I would do. I don’t know what options you have available to you. I don’t know how to get the profilers running in a fully useful way without some control over the environment, in this situation.
Good luck!