[GitHub] [arrow] jorisvandenbossche commented on a change in pull request #10088: ARROW-10675 [C++][Python] Support AWS S3 Web identity credentials

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jorisvandenbossche commented on a change in pull request #10088:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/10088#discussion_r625175844



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File path: python/pyarrow/_s3fs.pyx
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@@ -74,6 +74,13 @@ cdef class S3FileSystem(FileSystem):
         Whether to connect anonymously if access_key and secret_key are None.
         If true, will not attempt to look up credentials using standard AWS
         configuration methods.
+    use_web_identity: boolean, default False
+        Whether to connect using an assumed role authenticated using
+        a web identity token. The required settings are derived from
+        environment variables such as AWS_ROLE_ARN,
+        AWS_WEB_IDENTITY_TOKEN_FILE and AWS_ROLE_SESSION_NAME.
+        If true, will not attempt to look up credentials using other
+        AWS configuration methods.

Review comment:
       @sahil1105 you could also do a pre-cursor PR to refactor the existing options like discussed here




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