AWS SDK Version 2 for .NET
API Reference

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.NET Framework 3.5
 
Uses aws credentials stored in environment variables to construct the credentials object. AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY are used for the access key id and secret key. If the variable AWS_SESSION_TOKEN exists then it will be used to create temporary session credentials.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  Amazon.Runtime.AWSCredentials
    Amazon.Runtime.EnvironmentVariablesAWSCredentials

Namespace: Amazon.Runtime
Assembly: AWSSDK.dll
Version: (assembly version)

Syntax

C#
public class EnvironmentVariablesAWSCredentials : AWSCredentials

The EnvironmentVariablesAWSCredentials type exposes the following members

Constructors

NameDescription
Public Method EnvironmentVariablesAWSCredentials() Constructs an instance of EnvironmentVariablesAWSCredentials. If no credentials are found in the environment variables then an InvalidOperationException.

Methods

NameDescription
Public Method GetCredentials() Returns an instance of ImmutableCredentials for this instance

Version Information

.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5, 4.0, 3.5