secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-aws Fails to Start (Permission Denied on Unix Socket)

[knuurr]

We are trying to use secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-aws in our Kubernetes cluster, which is running on Hetzner Cloud. Our goal is to fetch secrets stored in AWS Secrets Manager. However, the provider is failing to start, and we're seeing the following error in the logs:

I0311 12:18:43.361201       1 main.go:34] Starting secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-aws version 1.0.r2-80-g8244505-2025.02.10.18.44
F0311 12:18:43.459197       1 main.go:55] Failed to listen on unix socket. error: listen unix /etc/kubernetes/secrets-store-csi-providers/aws.sock: bind: permission denied

Since we rely heavily on autoscaler I can't imagine to use any "manual intervention" method each time this issue arises.

What could be the issue here? Maybe somebody has managed to successfully deploy it onto their cluster?