How to configure AWS credentials/login?

[PeterBocan]

Hello Community,

I don't see any documentation around the AWS credentials and/or logging into AWS using a predefined AWS account. Do I need to provide a separate step to login into AWS?

[dflook]

You would typically set the AWS_ environment variables to pass the credentials.

You can use an access key that you have stored in a secret like this:

env:
    AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
    AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}

You can set the env globally at the top level, or for a single task.

These credentials could come from anywhere - I wrote https://github.com/dflook/configure-oidc-aws-credentials for using OpenID Connect.