diff --git a/website/source/docs/builders/amazon.html.md b/website/source/docs/builders/amazon.html.md
index 085c23c73..8c04c86eb 100644
--- a/website/source/docs/builders/amazon.html.md
+++ b/website/source/docs/builders/amazon.html.md
@@ -161,7 +161,11 @@ work, but specifics will depend on your use-case.
 Amazon uses the current time as part of the [request signing
 process](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/sigv4_signing.html). If
 your system clock is too skewed from the current time, your requests might
-fail. If you suspect your system's date is wrong, you can compare it against
+fail. If that's the case, you might see an error like this:
+
+    ==> amazon-ebs: Error querying AMI: AuthFailure: AWS was not able to validate the provided access credentials
+
+If you suspect your system's date is wrong, you can compare it against
 http://www.time.gov/. On Linux/OS X, you can run the `date` command to get the
-current time. If you're on Linux, you can try setting the time with ntp by running
-`sudo ntpd -q`.  
+current time. If you're on Linux, you can try setting the time with ntp by
+running `sudo ntpd -q`.