Get current AWS profile using .Net SDK

Question

In a C# project being executed on the development machine, I want to get the AWS region for my current AWS profile. I've seen the credential and profile resolution documentation and would rather not reimplement this if I can avoid it. In bash I would use:

Region=$(aws configure get region)

Is there some call in the AWS .Net SDK to do the equivalent?

Answer 1

Once you have created an AWS client object for some service, you can access the region for the default user through the Config property of the client object.

This two-line example creates a client using the default credentials and then displays the RegionEndpoint value on the console:

var client = new AmazonS3Client();
Console.WriteLine(client.Config.RegionEndpoint);

This code uses the AWS SDK for .NET version 3.7 and .NET Core 5. Here is a link to the API documentation for the IClientConfig interface so you can see what other information is available: IClientConfig