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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-4611:
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Github user StephanEwen commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2914
Looks like a good change to me.
Would be great if someone could try that out on an EMR/Kinesis cluster and
validate it practically.
> Make "AUTO" credential provider as default for Kinesis Connector
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> Key: FLINK-4611
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4611
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Kinesis Connector
> Reporter: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai
> Assignee: Wei-Che Wei
> Fix For: 1.2.0
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> Right now, the Kinesis Consumer / Producer by default directly expects the
> access key id and secret access key to be given in the config properties.
> This isn't a good practice for accessing AWS services, and usually Kinesis
> users would most likely be running their Flink application in AWS instances
> that have embedded credentials that can be access via the default credential
> provider chain. Therefore, it makes sense to change the default
> {{AWS_CREDENTIALS_PROVIDER}} to {{AUTO}} instead of {{BASIC}}.
> To avoid breaking user code, we only use directly supplied AWS credentials if
> both access key and secret key is given through {{AWS_ACCESS_KEY}} and
> {{AWS_SECRET_KEY}}. Otherwise, the default credential provider chain is used.
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