PowerShell command to retrieve (export) "current" AWS cached credentials?

[pcgeek86]

Background

The AWS CLI command has a sub-command to export the "current" temporary, cached credentials from a specified AWS profile.

aws configure export-credentials --profile <ProfileName>

For SSO profiles using IAM Identity Center, for example, there are cached credentials that can simply be read off the filesystem and provided to the user. The credential cache is under $HOME/.aws/sso/cache/, by default.

Question

Does the AWS PowerShell module have an equivalent (to the AWS CLI) command to retrieve the current credentials from the AWS credential cache?

When I Google'd for this, the best result I could find was this AWS CLI issue, but nothing directly related to an equivalent PowerShell command: aws/aws-cli#7388

I wonder if it's already implemented, and I'm just struggling to search for the correct term?

[boblodgett]

Without knowing what the credentials are being exported for I will give some options based off of the CLI sample you gave above. If there was a command to do this in PowerShell would likely be on this page: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/powershell/v4/reference/items/Common_cmdlets.html

Option 1: Exporting as PowerShell environment variables using the CLI:

aws configure export-credentials --format powershell

Option 2: Export the credentials with PowerShell

(Get-AWSCredential -ProfileName <profile>).GetCredentials()

Option 3: Exporting profile credentials as a session variable in PowerShell

Set-AWSCredential -ProfileName <ProfileName>

Option 4: Specifying the -ProfileName in a cmdlet

Get-S3Bucket -BucketName <BucketName> -ProfileName <ProfileName>

Please let us know if any of these options are what you are looking for.

[pcgeek86]

Thanks! I think I misunderstood how that command was working, so the title may not be totally accurate.

I think your Option 2 might be the equivalent.

Edit: Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's exactly it.