AWS CLI Profiles¶

When we configure our CLI it creates a default profile, that is stored in ~/.aws/credentials, but we can also set other profiles as well.

$ aws configure --profile my-other-aws-account
$ cat ~/.aws/credentials
[default]
aws_access_key_id = ...
aws_secret_access_key = ...
[my-other-aws-account]
aws_access_key_id = ...
aws_secret_access_key = ...
$ cat ~/.aws/config
[default]
region = eu-west3
[profile my-other-aws-account]
region = us-west-2

Now you can use this profile for CLI calls:

$ aws s3 ls --profile my-other-aws-account