@aws-sdk/credential-provider-process

What is @aws-sdk/credential-provider-process?

The @aws-sdk/credential-provider-process package is part of the AWS SDK for JavaScript (v3) and is used to load AWS credentials from a process specified in the shared AWS config and credentials files. This is useful for scenarios where you want to source credentials from an external process, which can be a custom credential provider or a token service.

What are @aws-sdk/credential-provider-process's main functionalities?

Loading credentials from a process

This feature allows you to load AWS credentials by executing a process defined in your AWS config file. The credentials returned by the process are then used to authenticate AWS SDK clients.

const { fromProcess } = require('@aws-sdk/credential-provider-process');

const credentials = fromProcess();
// Use credentials with an AWS SDK client
const client = new SomeAwsClient({ credentials });

Other packages similar to @aws-sdk/credential-provider-process

@aws-sdk/credential-provider-ini

This package is similar to @aws-sdk/credential-provider-process in that it is also used to load AWS credentials, but it does so from the AWS shared configuration file (typically located at ~/.aws/credentials). It does not execute an external process to obtain credentials.

@aws-sdk/credential-provider-cognito-identity

This package provides a way to retrieve AWS credentials by using Amazon Cognito Identity. It is different from @aws-sdk/credential-provider-process as it specifically targets Cognito for authentication rather than executing a custom process.

@aws-sdk/credential-provider-web-identity

This package is designed to retrieve AWS credentials from web identity token files, which is useful for workloads running on EKS or using OIDC identity providers. Unlike @aws-sdk/credential-provider-process, it does not involve running a separate process to obtain credentials.

@aws-sdk/credential-provider-sso

This package allows users to retrieve AWS credentials using AWS Single Sign-On (SSO). It differs from @aws-sdk/credential-provider-process by focusing on SSO as the credential source rather than a custom process.

README

@aws-sdk/credential-provider-process

An internal package

Usage

You probably shouldn't, at least directly. Please use @aws-sdk/credential-providers instead.

Changelog

3.159.0 (2022-08-26)

Features

• client-mediapackage: This release adds Ads AdTriggers and AdsOnDeliveryRestrictions to describe calls for CMAF endpoints on MediaPackage. (c05884e)
• token-providers: add token based authentication (#3883) (9f31345)
• util-endpoints: add ruleSet standard library (#3880) (4ffc67b)