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Support using STS session tokens in addition to keys
Another method for authentication to AWS is using STS keys. This is common when using 2FA or when using an identity account that ties together other delegated accounts in AWS. Session tokens are supported by Boto, we just need to expose them to our connection methods.
This PR adds support for authenticating with session tokens when using
environment variables for authentication. It does that by modifying the return
of fetch_aws_secret_key
to return a tri-tuple where the 3rd item of the tuple
is the contents of AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or AWS_SESSION_TOKEN, if available in the
environment.
Previous versions of different AWS tooling has used AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN as the default environment variable. However, the current standard is AWS_SESSION_TOKEN. This PR will use either of them with a preference towards the AWS_SESSION_TOKEN environment variable.
In the case that ~/.ec2-key-pairs or ~/.aws/credentials is being used for
authentication, we just return None
for the session token.