# aws-credential-types

This crate provides types concerned with AWS SDK credentials including:
* Traits for credentials providers and for credentials caching
* An opaque struct representing credentials
* Concrete implementations of credentials caching

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This crate is part of the [AWS SDK for Rust](https://awslabs.github.io/aws-sdk-rust/) and the [smithy-rs](https://github.com/smithy-lang/smithy-rs) code generator. In most cases, it should not be used directly.
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