When I give the command aws config list
, I get the following output for the default profile:
Name Value Type Location
---- ----- ---- --------
profile <not set> None None
However, when I give the command for a named profile, I get a profile name
$ aws configure list --profile MyProfile
Name Value Type Location
---- ----- ---- --------
profile MyProfile manual --profile
I have tried aws configure set profile Default
to name the default profile as Default
by reading the 'set' CLI command, I also tried aws configure set StoreAs Default
because I thought that's what's the variable is named after I read this page. I want to do this because I want have two profiles and I want to switch between profiles using the AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE
environment variable.
I have multiple profiles too, I use
AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE
to switch back and forth. However, I've named each profile something descriptive, likeaws-engineering
andaws-production
. Then, I can useset AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE=aws-engineering
and I'm good to go.I have no DEFAULT profile specified in my
~/.aws/config
, this was intentional so that I always explicitly have to choose which environment I'm working on.