To be able to access our AWS resources with AWS Toolkit, we need to configure your credentials. Configuring credentials can be, however, a problem when we use tools like AWSume.
Luckily, AWSume command accepts an optional argument --output-profile (-o).
This command creates a profile with credentials in ~/.aws/credentials.
1$ awsume my-user -a -o aws-explorer-my-user
2$ cat ~/.aws/credentials
3...
4[aws-explorer-my-user]
5manager = awsume
6aws_access_key_id = ...
7aws_secret_access_key = ...
8aws_session_token = ...
9region = eu-west-2
10autoawsume = true
11expiration = 2020-07-06 20:36:25
12source_expiration = 2020-07-06 21:29:43
13awsumepy_command = my-user -a -o aws-explorer-my-user
The argument -a will make sure the credentials are auto-refreshed. The newly created profile can be
then selected from the list of credential profiles like any other existing profile.