Managing multiple AWS profiles in bash

Updated: July 2018

autoenv has been replaced by direnv So now you’ll use .envrc files, instead of .env files. Further, the .envrc files are really just bash scripts that will execute. This means export FOO=foo, not just FOO=foo.

Direnv has installation instructions at the link above.

For multiple AWS profiles then, you just need to:

• AWS’s cli already supports the concept of profiles. Configure as desired
• add export AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE=<project-specific-profile> to your .envrc file and it will be set whenever you cd into the directory.