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The @smithy/credential-provider-imds package is an AWS credential provider that retrieves credentials from the EC2 instance metadata service and ECS container metadata service. It is useful for applications running on AWS infrastructure that require secure access to AWS services. This package fits into applications that need to authenticate with AWS without hardcoding credentials.
- lurq health score
- 80/100
- Confidence
- proven
- Weekly downloads
- 74,501,314
- Latest version
- 4.5.2
- Last release
- Sep 3, 2026
- License
- Apache-2.0
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- No known advisories
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