Reload credentials from the AWS credential file if they have changed on disk
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Related issues:
- https://github.com/boto/botocore/issues/704
- https://github.com/boto/botocore/issues/2450
- https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java-v2/issues/1754
> We require short term credentials to be used for all API calls. As an easy way to deal with this, we have been writing credentials to a credentials file continually every X minutes and relying on the default search order for finding credentials. That way, we don't have to write any specific authentication code inside the app.
The current solution is for users to write their own credential provider to do this, as demonstrated here (for the Python SDK):
https://github.com/boto/botocore/issues/704#issuecomment-706588279
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