@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

3.691.0 (2024-11-13)

Features

• client-accessanalyzer: This release adds support for policy validation and external access findings for resource control policies (RCP). IAM Access Analyzer helps you author functional and secure RCPs and awareness that a RCP may restrict external access. Updated service API, documentation, and paginators. (8ee2e53)
• client-application-signals: Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now supports creating Service Level Objectives with burn rates. Users can now create or update SLOs with burn rate configurations to meet their specific business requirements. (e176892)
• client-b2bi: This release adds a GenerateMapping API to allow generation of JSONata or XSLT transformer code based on input and output samples. (79297bb)
• client-billing: Today, AWS announces the general availability of ListBillingViews API in the AWS SDKs, to enable AWS Billing Conductor (ABC) users to create proforma Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) programmatically. (b46415d)
• client-cloudtrail: This release adds a new API GenerateQuery that generates a query from a natural language prompt about the event data in your event data store. This operation uses generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) to produce a ready-to-use SQL query from the prompt. (93b16b2)
• client-dynamodb: This release includes supports the new WarmThroughput feature for DynamoDB. You can now provide an optional WarmThroughput attribute for CreateTable or UpdateTable APIs to pre-warm your table or global secondary index. You can also use DescribeTable to see the latest WarmThroughput value. (0ca3c21)
• client-ec2: This release adds the source AMI details in DescribeImages API (67fa666)
• client-internetmonitor: Add new query type Routing_Suggestions regarding querying interface (4f49de2)
• client-mediaconvert: This release adds support for ARN inputs in the Kantar credentials secrets name field and the MSPR field to the manifests for PlayReady DRM protected outputs. (6c46bda)
• client-organizations: Add support for policy operations on the Resource Control Polices. (d87a984)
• clients: update client endpoints as of 2024-11-13 (24e23f9)