Ability to specify endpoint-url in profile

[StFS]

Currently I don't seem to be able to specify an endpoint URL in my profile. I always have to specify the --endpoint-url option on the command line.

I would like to be able to do something like the following (in my ~/.aws/config file):

[default]
region = us-east-1
output = json

[profile nextcode]
region = myregion-1a
output = json
endpoint-url = http://c.my.other.aws.compatable.service.com

[kyleknap]

@StFS
If you do not mind me asking, what is the specific use case do you need it for (like which service or services would you plan to use it for)? The thing with --endpoint-url is that the value set will most likely not apply across differing services. So if you configure a global endpoint url, it may work for one service, but you will run into errors if you try to make requests to other services.

I could see having a per-service configuration for endpoint-url, but I am having trouble imagining a global endpoint-url across all AWS services.

[StFS]

Thanks for your reply.

Basically, we use AWS for some things but we also have our own EC2/S3 compatable private cloud setup (we're using https://qstack.com/).

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something with this. I know that the endpoints seem to differ between whether you're "talking" S3 or EC2. Basically I think I want to be able to point one of my profiles to a different "set" of endpoints. The aws cli tool works fine for our AWS account, but when I want to use it for our private cloud setup I always have to specify both --profile (to get the credentials right) and --endpoint-url (so that aws contacts our private cloud endpoint instead of the AWS ones).

[StFS]

@kyleknap Am I totally out there with this?

[kyleknap]

@StFS
Your use case makes sense to me. I am not sure how many users have a similar use case. I think if we were to add it as a feature we would be more inclined to do it per service, instead of setting a global value for endpoint url. The good news is that if we were to add this feature you would be able to configure the endpoint url for each service per profile (so you can still just use --profile and not have to include --endpoint-url).

Marking as feature request.

[StFS]

Ok thanks for the response again.

I'm a bit confused about these endpoints. It seems that for AWS the endpoint may change depending on what region you're using and also what service you're using.

For us, we would only need to specify ec2_endpoint and s3_endpoint, is that what you mean by "per service"? Are there other services than EC2 and S3? I think I've seen something involving user management as well but I'm not quite sure.

[jerrycattell]

We have a similar use case (S3 alternative in Canada), and we would love to be able to configure the endpoint-url in the config file. Even if that means having a separate profile per service (currently it is only used for object storage), it would allow us to use the same commands in all of our environments.

[kennu]

I think this would also be useful for configuring a "local" profile for accessing DynamoDB Local. Currently you have to write something like

aws --profile local --endpoint-url http://localhost:8000 dynamodb list-tables

[viniciussbs]

Same case here, @kennu. I have to set endpoint-url everytime I need to run some command on dynamodb-local.

I would love to set http://localhost:8000 as my default endpoint-url for dynamodb and set a blank endpoint-url to an production profile. It's more error-proof.

[mathurasri]

How to set dyanmodb local endpoint-url ? I am using ubuntu OS.