@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

3.200.0 (2022-10-31)

Bug Fixes

• endpoint: instruct rds middleware to wait for endpoint resolution (#4120) (7cabc1e)
• types: extends check of generic in WithSdkStreamMixin (#4119) (299d245)

Features

• client-apprunner: This release adds support for private App Runner services. Services may now be configured to be made private and only accessible from a VPC. The changes include a new VpcIngressConnection resource and several new and modified APIs. (cce87ac)
• client-cloudwatch-logs: SDK release to support tagging for destinations and log groups with TagResource. Also supports tag on create with PutDestination. (c97217f)
• client-connect: Amazon connect now support a new API DismissUserContact to dismiss or remove terminated contacts in Agent CCP (9e340c3)
• client-ec2: Elastic IP transfer is a new Amazon VPC feature that allows you to transfer your Elastic IP addresses from one AWS Account to another. (dba90b0)
• client-iot: This release adds the Amazon Location action to IoT Rules Engine. (dc1adcf)
• client-sesv2: This release includes support for interacting with the Virtual Deliverability Manager, allowing you to opt in/out of the feature and to retrieve recommendations and metric data. (72ea473)
• client-textract: This release introduces additional support for 30+ normalized fields such as vendor address and currency. It also includes OCR output in the response and accuracy improvements for the already supported fields in previous version (5ee0634)
• clients: update client endpoints as of 2022-10-31 (1677e7f)