How to change the default profile variable in aws cli?

Question

I try to use aws cli with docker images.

the command line like :

slu@machine:/c/work/dfsi$ export AWS_PROFILE=role-development
slu@machine:/c/work/dfsi$ aws ecr get-login

An error occurred

(AccessDeniedException) when calling the GetAuthorizationToken operation: User: arn:aws:iam::XXXXXXXXXXXX:user/slu is not authorized to perform: ecr:GetAuthorizationToken on resource: *

but I can do:

aws ecr get-login --profile=role-development

What I want to do isn't obviously write --profile and try to do it with hidden --profile variable?

How to do that?

Answer 1

The below environmental variable is working for me as expected.

AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE=profile-name

Answer 2

• step1: echo $AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE to see what's your environment variable.
• step2: export AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE=your_aws_default_profile_name

To verify, simply run aws iam list-users to see what comes back based on your profile.