Feature Request: (aws provider) shared_config_file

[ProbablyRusty]

I am thinking it would be nice to implement shared_config_file in the aws provider stanza in the same way shared_credentials_file is already implemented. The primary use case of this that I envision would be to dynamically fetch the default region (if set) for whatever profile is in use.

So for example, instead of something like this:

provider "aws" {
  shared_credentials_file = "${pathexpand("~/.aws/credentials")}"
  region                  = "${var.region}"
}

...it would instead be possible to do this:

provider "aws" {
  shared_credentials_file = "${pathexpand("~/.aws/credentials")}"
  shared_config_file      = "${pathexpand("~/.aws/config")}"
}

[ashb]

Duplicate of #7192 (or possibly an extension of that to allow using a custom shared config file?)

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