AWS Profile Switcher

The tool which allows you to jump between your profiles in your ~/.aws/credentials

Problematics

Well, if you are operating only one AWS account then you will not find this util useful. Problem appears when there are more than 3 accounts under your control. Sure, you can use --profile flag with any your aws cli command. But what if you need to run number of commands for several accounts, then make sure you don't forget to add --profile to your command or specified the right profile name. Another example is about Hashicorp Terraform. Let's imagine that you have one module which you need to apply for several accounts. Unfortunately, terraform doesn't allow you to specify --profile and that's logically since Terraform is not about AWS. So, you will need to hardcode your AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY or go to ~/.aws/credentials and change the [default] profile.

How to install

That's easy just run

sudo pip install aws-profile-switcher

Or clone this repository and run

make install

How does it work

Simple switch

What have you seen:

• User called aws-profile-switcher
• aws-profile-switcher identified that current default is among of all profiles so it allowd to proceed without any aditional operations
• aws-profile-switcher asked user to choose new default profile
• aws-profile-switcher switched the default

In case you have a default but no backup for it

What have you seen:

• User called aws-profile-switcher
• aws-profile-switcher understood that there is no backup for profile that is currently set to default and suggested to make a backup
• User agreed to make a backup and gave it the name
• aws-profile-switcher asked user to choose new default profile
• Voila, default is changed and the old default is backed up

In case there is no default at all

What have you seen:

• User called aws-profile-switcher
• aws-profile-switcher asked user to choose new default profile
• There was no defalut profile at all, so aws-profile-switcher has created it

In case user doesn't want backing up the default

What have you seen:

• User called aws-profile-switcher
• aws-profile-switcher understood that there is no backup for profile that is currently set to default and suggested to make a backup
• User disagreed to make a backup
• aws-profile-switcher asked to agreed that he/she doesn't want to make a backup
• Default is changed and the old default was not backed up