AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle. It has been in the build since v2.1.138, including the newest one read.
What it is
Nobody has written a line about this one. It is not in any of Anthropic's reference tables and no changelog entry here carries a description of it. It is in the build, which is the whole of what this page can claim.
Presence across releases
| Releases | Reading | Declared type | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1.245 – 2.1.250 5 releases | never mined | — | — |
| 2.1.202 – 2.1.243 41 releases | in the build | str | — |
| 2.1.138 – 2.1.201 54 releases | in the build | — | — |
A row reading never mined is a release with no archived bundle behind it. Nothing was read out of it, so nothing here says whether the name was in it. A declared type or a default is only ever what that release's own bundle stated.
Changelog entries naming it
No changelog entry here has ever named it. That is a statement about what has been written, not about the name: it has been in the build since v2.1.138 without anybody writing a line about it.
Documentation pages
- claude-in-amazon-bedrock mentions it Claude Developer Platform
- claude-on-amazon-bedrock-legacy mentions it Claude Developer Platform
- claude-platform-on-aws mentions it Claude Developer Platform
- Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Claude apps gateway for Amazon Bedrock, Claude Platform on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Claude apps gateway configuration mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Claude Code GitLab CI/CD mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Configure the sandboxed Bash tool mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Claude Code settings reference mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Deploy Claude Desktop on 3P with Amazon Bedrock mentions it Claude Documentation
A reference table page is one whose own table defines this name, and it is where the description above came from. A page that mentions it carries the name somewhere in its text and may say nothing about it at all. Every page carrying it.
Names beside it
Every environment variable in the inventory starting aws, up to twelve of them.
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_IDNo description from anybody. 2.1.138
AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCKAmazon Bedrock API key for authentication (see [Amazon Bedrock API keys](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/accelerate-ai-development-with-amazon-bedrock-api-keys/)) 2.1.138
AWS_CONFIG_FILEAWS SSO profile logins resolve faster via a direct fast path, falling back if anything unusual is configured. 2.1.172
AWS_CONTAINER_CREDENTIALS_FULL_URINo description from anybody. 2.1.178
AWS_CONTAINER_CREDENTIALS_RELATIVE_URINo description from anybody. 2.1.178
AWS_DEFAULT_REGIONA malformed AWS region variable is now ignored, falling back to us-east-1. 2.1.138
AWS_ENDPOINT_URLNo description from anybody. 2.1.239
AWS_ENDPOINT_URL_STSNo description from anybody. 2.1.239
AWS_EXECUTION_ENVNo description from anybody. 2.1.138
AWS_LAMBDA_BENCHMARK_MODENo description from anybody. 2.1.138
AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAMENo description from anybody. 2.1.138
AWS_LOGIN_CACHE_DIRECTORYNo description from anybody. 2.1.138
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the environment variable does. All environment variables.