Using docker for aws command line utility

Question

This command works as expected:

# docker run --rm -it public.ecr.aws/aws-cli/aws-cli:2.9.1 --version
aws-cli/2.9.1 Python/3.9.11 Linux/5.15.0-1026-aws docker/aarch64.amzn.2 prompt/off

But this does not:

# docker run --rm -it public.ecr.aws/aws-cli/aws-cli:2.9.1 s3 ls
Unable to locate credentials. You can configure credentials by running "aws configure".

Nor can I configure AWS credentials...

# docker run -it public.ecr.aws/aws-cli/aws-cli:2.9.1 aws configure

I am not sure how to use docker for aws command.

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Update:

This seems to work as expected:

$ docker run --rm -it -v ~/.aws:/root/.aws  public.ecr.aws/aws-cli/aws-cli:2.9.1 s3 ls

But in my case, I do not have credentials saved locally. Isn't the docker container recommended in such cases?