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A developer is troubleshooting a local C# application that uses the AWS SDK for .NET to publish messages to an Amazon SNS topic. During local testing, the application publishes messages to the production AWS account instead of the development AWS account.

The developer has set the AWS_PROFILE environment variable to development-profile in the active terminal session. The local ~/.aws/credentials file is configured as follows:

ini
[default]
aws_access_key_id = AKIA_PROD_KEY
aws_secret_access_key = PROD_SECRET

[development-profile]
aws_access_key_id = AKIA_DEV_KEY
aws_secret_access_key = DEV_SECRET

Upon investigation, the developer discovers that the environment variables AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY are also set to the production keys within the same terminal session.

Why is the application using the production credentials, and how should the developer resolve this issue?

  1. A
    The AWS SDK loads credentials from the global configuration file before evaluating environment variables. To resolve this, the developer must modify the ~/.aws/config file to set profile_precedence = development-profile.
  2. The AWS SDK default credential provider chain evaluates environment variables before looking up profiles in the shared credentials file. To resolve this, the developer must unset the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables in the terminal session.Cevap
  3. C
    The AWS SDK cannot parse the credentials file because the local developer's IAM user lacks a trust policy mapping. To resolve this, the developer must update the development IAM trust policy to allow the local machine to assume the role.
  4. D
    The AWS SDK retrieves the production credentials from AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, which overrides local configuration settings. To resolve this, the developer must delete the production credentials parameters from the Parameter Store.

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The AWS SDK default credential provider chain evaluates environment variables before looking up profiles in the shared credentials file. To resolve the issue, the developer must unset the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables in the terminal session.
The default credential provider chain in the AWS SDK resolves credentials in a specific order of precedence. Environment variables (such as AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY) are checked first. If they are present, the SDK uses them and stops looking. Shared credentials profiles (configured via AWS_PROFILE and ~/.aws/credentials) are evaluated later in the chain. Therefore, because the production keys were set in the environment variables, they took precedence over the AWS_PROFILE environment variable. Unsetting AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY from the environment allows the SDK to fall back to the credentials file and correctly use the profile specified by AWS_PROFILE.

Adım Adım Çözüm

1
Analyze the active terminal environment variables and identify configured AWS credentials.
Discovered that the terminal has AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY set to production keys, alongside AWS_PROFILE set to the development profile.
The AWS SDK relies on the default credential provider chain, which checks environment variables first.
2
Evaluate the order of precedence in the AWS SDK default credential provider chain.
Identified that environment variables (AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY) take precedence over the shared credentials file and the AWS_PROFILE setting.
Since environment variables are found first, the SDK uses them directly and ignores the AWS_PROFILE setting.
3
Unset the production credential environment variables in the terminal.
Executing 'unset AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID' and 'unset AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY' removes the environment-level overrides.
Removing these variables forces the AWS SDK to fall back to the next level in the provider chain, which is the shared credentials file, allowing it to correctly load the profile specified by AWS_PROFILE.

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AWS SDK Default Credential Provider Chain Order of Precedence
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