Easily switch between AWS Profiles

Have profiles setup using the aws cli. Do not setup a default profile (see below for why)

aws configure --profile PROFILE_NAME

Refer to this doc for more information https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html

npm install -g awsp

Add the following to your .bashrc or .zshrc config

alias awsp="source _awsp"

awsp

Default profiles are not currently supported. This was intentionally done so the user explicitly selects a profile in each shell.

All profiles need to be defined in ~/.aws/config with the prefix [profile ...]

[profile sandbox]

For better visibility into what your shell is set to it's helpful to configure your prompt to show the value of the env variable AWS_PROFILE.

Here's a sample of my zsh prompt config using oh-my-zsh themes

function aws_prof {
  local profile="${AWS_PROFILE}"

  if [[ -z "${profile}" ]]
  then echo ""
  else echo "%{$fg_bold[blue]%}aws:(%{$fg[yellow]%}${profile}%{$fg_bold[blue]%})%{$reset_color%} "
  fi
}

PROMPT='OTHER_PROMPT_STUFF $(aws_prof)'