I cloned a repo to follow through on a tutorial. The Github repo has amplify folder already, meaning the original developer had already initialized amplify in the project. How do I successfully run amplify init? Because whenever I run the code I will get this error below:

$ amplify init
Note: It is recommended to run this command from the root of your app directory
? Do you want to use an existing environment? Yes
? Choose the environment you would like to use: dev
Using default provider awscloudformation
✖ Initializing your environment: dev
✖ There was an error initializing your environment.
???? Could not initialize platform for ‘dev’: Access Denied

Thanks for your help.