@aws-sdk/credential-provider-process
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AWS credential provider that sources credential_process from ~/.aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config
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.
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 });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.
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.
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.
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.
An internal package
You probably shouldn't, at least directly. Please use @aws-sdk/credential-providers instead.
3.857.0 (2025-07-30)
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AWS credential provider that sources credential_process from ~/.aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config
The npm package @aws-sdk/credential-provider-process receives a total of 29,853,092 weekly downloads. As such, @aws-sdk/credential-provider-process popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @aws-sdk/credential-provider-process demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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