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# Credentials Providers
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You can use the AWSCredentialProvider interface to provide login credentials to AWS Auth. Implement this interface to provide your own method of credentials deployment. We also provide default credential providers.
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## Default Credential Provider Chain
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The default credential provider chain does the following:
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1. Checks your environment variables for AWS Credentials
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2. Checks your $HOME/.aws/credentials file for a profile and credentials
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3. Contacts and logs in to a trusted identity provider (Cognito, Login with Amazon, Facebook, Google). The sdk looks for the login information to these providers either on the enviroment variables: AWS_ROLE_ARN, AWS_WEB_IDENTITY_TOKEN_FILE, AWS_ROLE_SESSION_NAME. Or on a profile in your $HOME/.aws/credentials.
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4. Checks for an external method set as part of a profile on $HOME/.aws/config to generate or look up credentials that isn't directly supported by AWS.
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5. Contacts the ECS TaskRoleCredentialsProvider service to request credentials if Environment variable AWS_CONTAINER_CREDENTIALS_RELATIVE_URI has been set.
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6. Contacts the EC2MetadataInstanceProfileCredentialsProvider service to request credentials if AWS_EC2_METADATA_DISABLED is NOT set to ON.
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The simplest way to communicate with AWS is to ensure we can find your credentials in one of these locations.
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## Other Methods
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We also support two other methods for providing credentials:
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* Provide your credentials in your client’s constructor.
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* Use Amazon Cognito Identity, which is an identity management solution. You can use the CognitoCaching*CredentialsProviders classes in the identity-management project. For more information, see the *Amazon Cognito Developer Guide*. |