opensearch-project / opensearch-project/sql-odbc

[FEATURE] Support EC2 Instance Authentication

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enhancement
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C++
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Description

I would like to use the ODBC driver on Windows EC2 instances that have an instance profile and IAM role with permissions for OpenSearch. This would eliminate the need to configure or store credentials within the EC2 instance. Unfortunately, this ODBC driver has hard coded the use of the profile credential provider when selecting IAM authentication.

The ODBC driver should switch from using Aws::Auth::ProfileConfigFileAWSCredentialsProvider to instead using Aws::Auth::DefaultAWSCredentialsProviderChain which would use EnvironmentAWSCredentialsProvider, ProfileConfigFileAWSCredentialsProvider, InstanceProfileCredentialsProvider in that order. This would provide functionality with parity to the JDBC driver and most tooling that uses the AWS SDK.

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Research direction

No file or test is named. Find the IAM authentication path in the ODBC driver and inspect where ProfileConfigFileAWSCredentialsProvider is selected; replace that selection with the default provider chain and verify that instance-profile authentication works on a Windows EC2 instance.

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Assessment

Tech stack
aws, cpp
Domain
authentication, cloud
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Clearly specified
Newbie friendliness
43/100

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