Accessing Cloud Data
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Using Environment Variables to Authenticate

AWS CLI supports authentication through environment variables. These same environment variables will be used by Hadoop if no configuration properties are set.

The environment variables are:

Environment VariableDescription
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_IDAccess key
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEYSecret key
AWS_SESSION_TOKENSession token (only if using session authentication)