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@aws-sdk/credential-provider-process
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@aws-sdk/credential-provider-process
AWS credential provider that sources credential_process from ~/.aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config
@aws-sdk/credential-provider-process
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Usage
You probably shouldn't, at least directly. Please use @aws-sdk/credential-providers instead.
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@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.
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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 39,293,058 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.
Package last updated on 24 Feb 2026
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