Feature request: allow to set AWS profile

How do you set a profile? Is that fully controlled with env vars?

Yes this can be fully controlled by env vars. You can run

export AWS_PROFILE=<PROFILENAME>

And it will map to the profiles in the aws config and it should be picked up by the SDK's

No, this is not the case I'm talking about.

Provided that Claude Code can both write code as well as run the commands let's imagine the situation like that:

I develop some application and want to test it from my development environment.
Let's say app needs to access S3 bucket using specific AWS profile.

Without Claude Code I just set AWS_PROFILE and run that app, everything works just fine.

Now, I want to use Claude Code, but... I don't want it to use that AWS_PROFILE for reaching Bedrock - real life use case it that e.g. I want to use personal account for Bedrock billing and then develop against customer AWS account.

If I set AWS_PROFILE then both Claude Code and and my app will use that single profile, but I want them to use two separate ones.

So the feature is about introducing additional env variable like _CLAUDE_CODE_AWS_PROFILE_ which for Claude Code takes precedence over AWS_PROFILE.

This way I can set both like:

export CLAUDE_CODE_AWS_PROFILE=my-personal-account 
export AWS_PROFILE=dev
claude
// do all stuff

And now Claude Code bills my personal account, but every command that it executes uses "dev" profile.

Basically, during Bedrock client setup we want to do:

[pseudocode]

{
...,
profile = process.env.CLAUDE_CODE_AWS_PROFILE || process.env.AWS_PROFILE || '',
...,

To do this, add AWS_PROFILE to your globalConfig.env. https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/claude-code/overview#global-configuration

Is there any way to set this env variable so it's just something claude itself uses for model access, but not have it propagate to the env that claude uses when it runs bash commands?

Currently it seems like if I want claude to deploy anything to AWS it'll always be bound to the same account that I'm using for bedrock.

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