Tie into AWS login somehow?

[ckelner]

Haven't really looked into this to determine if even a remote possibility. Would be nice to use an existing AWS session somehow?

[ryansydnor]

@ckelner - If you're running on a machine that has an instance profile, you can query EC2s metadata service using something like this:

  var metadataUrl = "http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/instance-profile";
  var onComplete = function(response) {
      response = JSON.parse(response);
      var myCreds = {
        'sessionId': response["AccessKeyId"],
        'sessionKey': response["SecretAccessKey"],
        'sessionToken': response["Token"]
      };
  myXHRRequest(metadataUrl, onComplete);