Summary

Fix the viaq version of vector to support using a credentials file for AWS Authentication

Acceptance Criteria

• Verify vector authenticates with AWS using the role ARN associated with an explicit profile defined in the credentials file
• Verify the README notes (rh-main branch?) includes this difference from the upstream

Notes

This issue original was discovered by an error produced by the collector:

When using auth.credentials_file in Vector configuration, the following error was encountered:

Invalid Configuration: Missing Region

Adding the region to the credentials file, config file, or ENV did not fix the issue.  Manually specifying the region in the Vector configuration was also ineffective.

Solution: The aws-auth.rs file in Vector was modified to properly pass the region when using credentials from a file.

https://github.com/cahartma/vector/tree/release-6.1-aws-region-for-credentials-path

pushed poc fix to:  quay.io/cahartma/vector:v0.37.1-aws