Python Generating an IAM authentication token boto3.session

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I am trying to use the documentation on https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/UsingWithRDS.IAMDBAuth.Connecting.Python.html. Right now I am stuck at session = boto3.session(profile_name='RDSCreds'). What is profile_name and how do I find that in my RDS?

import sys
import boto3

ENDPOINT="mysqldb.123456789012.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com"
PORT="3306"
USR="jane_doe"
REGION="us-east-1"
os.environ['LIBMYSQL_ENABLE_CLEARTEXT_PLUGIN'] = '1'

#gets the credentials from .aws/credentials
session = boto3.Session(profile_name='RDSCreds')
client = session.client('rds')

token = client.generate_db_auth_token(DBHostname=ENDPOINT, Port=PORT, DBUsername=USR, Region=REGION)
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session = boto3.Session(profile_name='RDSCreds')

profile_name here means the name of the profile you have configured to use for your aws cli.

usually when you run aws configure it creates a default profile.But sometime users want to manage aws cli with another account credentials or amange request for another region so they configure separate profile. docs for creating configuring multiple profiles

aws configure --profile RDSCreds   #enter your access keys for this profile

in case if you think you have already created RDSCreds profile to check that profile less ~/.aws/config

the documentation which you have mentioned for rds using boto3 also says "The code examples use profiles for shared credentials. For information about the specifying credentials, see Credentials in the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) documentation."

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