Terraform Providers
Learn more about the Terraform providers .
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The key we created serves only one purpose. We created it so that we can use it in Terraform’s aws provider. It allows us to configure the credentials used to authenticate with AWS and a few other things. For more details, please visit the AWS Provider section of the Terraform documentation.
One of the ways the provider can authenticate is through the environment variables we set a few moments ago. Let’s look at the definition of provider.
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provider"aws"{region = var.region}