[FLINK-8416] Kinesis consumer doc examples should demonstrate preferred default credentials provider

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Not a Priority
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Connectors / Kinesis, Documentation
• Labels: auto-deprioritized-major auto-deprioritized-minor
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai
• Created: 12/Jan/18 00:03
• Updated: 10/Dec/21 22:38

Description

The Kinesis consumer docs [here](https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.5/dev/connectors/kinesis.html#kinesis-consumer) demonstrate providing credentials by explicitly supplying the AWS Access ID and Key.

The always preferred approach for AWS, unless running locally, is to automatically fetch the shipped credentials from the AWS environment.

That is actually the default behaviour of the Kinesis consumer, so the docs should demonstrate that more clearly.