[SPARK-3640] KinesisUtils should accept a credentials object instead of forcing DefaultCredentialsProvider

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.0
• Component/s: DStreams
• Labels: kinesis
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Aniket Bhatnagar
• Created: 22/Sep/14 11:22
• Updated: 01/Mar/15 18:12
• Resolved: 14/Dec/14 13:16

Description

KinesisUtils should accept AWS Credentials as a parameter and should default to DefaultCredentialsProvider if no credentials are provided. Currently, the implementation forces usage of DefaultCredentialsProvider which can be a pain especially when jobs are run by multiple unix users.

Issue Links

• relates to: SPARK-5960 Allow AWS credentials to be passed to KinesisUtils.createStream()
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #3092 (aniketbhatnagar)