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

None of these allow for role assumption in profiles (which I use heavily). I made the following very short script in python3 that uses boto3 to do the heavy lifting of role assumption and the like. It may be helpful.

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# export the AWS environment for a given profile

import boto3
import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog="exportaws",
    description="Extract AWS credentials for a profile as env variables.")
parser.add_argument("profile", help="profile name in ~/.aws/config.")
args = parser.parse_args()
creds = boto3.session.Session(profile_name=args.profile).get_credentials()
print(f'export AWS_ACCESS_KEY={creds.access_key}')
print(f'export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY={creds.secret_key}')
print(f'export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN={creds.token}')