CLI

You can set give the AWS CLI access to your AWS account credentials by exporting a set of account keys as environment variables.

$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<YOUR_ACCESS_KEY>
$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>
$ export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=<YOUR_SESSION_TOKEN>

You can set the default region for the AWS CLI by exporting a region environment variable.

$ export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=<REGION>