Is there a way to export an AWS CLI Profile to Environment Variables?

Question

When working with certain third-party tools like Terraform, it\'s not easily possible to specify an AWS CLI profile, and I like working with the environment variables better

Answer 1

I like Kay's ideas of a script that exports the desired profile so I wrote one too:

PROFILES=$(awk -F"\\\]|\\\[" '/^\[/{print $2}' ~/.aws/credentials)

select PROFILE in $PROFILES; do
  export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="$(aws configure get aws_access_key_id --profile $PROFILE)"
  export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="$(aws configure get aws_secret_access_key --profile $PROFILE)"
  export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION="$(aws configure get region --profile $PROFILE)"
  break
done

echo AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
echo AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$(echo $AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY|tr '[:print:]' '*')
echo AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=$AWS_DEFAULT_REGION

Just put it in a file and then source (.) it from your shell.