AWS SDK Version 4 for .NET
API Reference

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Process Credentials can retrieve credentials by running a process and reading its stdout. A new config option, "credential_process" is added to the shared config file that allows customers to specify which process to run. The credentials retrieved by running this process could be either Basic or Session credentials.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  Amazon.Runtime.Identity.BaseIdentity
    Amazon.Runtime.AWSCredentials
      Amazon.Runtime.RefreshingAWSCredentials
        Amazon.Runtime.ProcessAWSCredentials

Namespace: Amazon.Runtime
Assembly: AWSSDK.Core.dll
Version: 3.x.y.z

Syntax

C#
public class ProcessAWSCredentials : RefreshingAWSCredentials
         IDisposable

The ProcessAWSCredentials type exposes the following members

Constructors

NameDescription
Public Method ProcessAWSCredentials(string)

Constructs an instance of credentials that can be retrieved by running an external process.

Public Method ProcessAWSCredentials(string, string)

Constructs an instance of credentials that can be retrieved by running an external process.

Properties

NameTypeDescription
Public Property Expiration System.Nullable<System.DateTime> Inherited from Amazon.Runtime.RefreshingAWSCredentials.
Public Property PreemptExpiryTime System.TimeSpan Inherited from Amazon.Runtime.RefreshingAWSCredentials.

Methods

Note:

Asynchronous operations (methods ending with Async) in the table below are for .NET 4.7.2 or higher.

NameDescription
Public Method ClearCredentials() Inherited from Amazon.Runtime.RefreshingAWSCredentials.
Public Method DetermineProcessCredential()

Generates new credentials by running the "credential_process" process.

Public Method DetermineProcessCredentialAsync()
Public Method Dispose() Inherited from Amazon.Runtime.RefreshingAWSCredentials.
Public Method GetCredentials() Inherited from Amazon.Runtime.RefreshingAWSCredentials.
Public Method GetCredentialsAsync() Inherited from Amazon.Runtime.RefreshingAWSCredentials.

Version Information

.NET:
Supported in: 8.0 and newer, Core 3.1

.NET Standard:
Supported in: 2.0

.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.7.2 and newer