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Specifying a Profile

Profiles are the preferred way to use credentials in an application running locally.You can store profiles

in the SDK Store or in the credentials file.You don't have to specify where the profile is stored. Just

reference the profile by name, and the SDK for .NET retrieves the corresponding credentials, as described

in the previous section.

The recommended way to specify a profile is to define an aws element in your application's App.config

or Web.config file.The associated credentials are incorporated into the application during the build

process.

The following example specifies a profile named development.

</configSections>

</configuration>

Another way to specify a profile is to define an AWSProfileName value in the appSettings section of

your application's App.config or Web.config file.The associated credentials are incorporated into the

application during the build process.

The following example specifies a profile named development.

</appSettings>

</configuration>

This example assumes that you are using the SDK Store or a credentials file in the default location, under

the current user's home directory. If your profiles are stored in a credentials file in an arbitrary location,

specify the location by adding a profilesLocation attribute value to aws. The following example

specifies C:\aws_service_credentials\credentials as the credentials file by using the

recommended aws element.

</configSections>

<aws profileName="development" profilesLocation="C:\aws_service_credentials\cre

dentials"/>

</configuration>

Another way to specify a credentials file is with the appSettings element.

<add key="AWSProfilesLocation" value="C:\aws_service_credentials\creden

tials"/>

</appSettings>

</configuration>

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AWS SDK for .NET Developer Guide

Configuring AWS Credentials