Cloud Native Programming with Golang

Shared configuration

Since it is likely that different microservices would need to use the same configuration settings when interacting with AWS, the AWS provides an option to make use of what is called shared configuration. Shared configuration is basically a configuration file that is stored locally. The filename and path is .aws/config. Remember that the .aws folder would exist in the home folder of our operating system; the folder was covered before when discussing the credentials file. 

The configuration file should follow an ini-like format similar to the credentials file. It also supports profiles in a similar way to what we covered earlier in the credentials file. Here is an example of what .aws/config should look like:

[default] ...