Bump aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials from 4 to 6

[dependabot]

Bumps aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials from 4 to 6.

Release notes

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v6.0.0

6.0.0 (2026-02-04)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• Update action to use node24 Note this requires GitHub action runner version v2.327.1 or later (#1632) (a7a2c11)

Features

• add support to define transitive tag keys (#1316) (232435c) (930ebd9)

Bug Fixes

• properly output aws-account-id and authenticated-arn when using role-chaining (#1633) (7ceaf96)

v5.1.1

5.1.1 (2025-11-24)

Miscellaneous Chores

• release 5.1.1 (56d6a58)
• various dependency updates

v5.1.0

5.1.0 (2025-10-06)

Features

• Add global timeout support (#1487) (1584b8b)
• add no-proxy support (#1482) (dde9b22)
• Improve debug logging in retry logic (#1485) (97ef425)

Bug Fixes

• properly expose getProxyForUrl (introduced in #1482) (#1486) (cea4298)

v5.0.0

5.0.0 (2025-09-03)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• Cleanup input handling. Changes invalid boolean input behavior (see #1445)

Features

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Changelog

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6.2.1 (2026-06-26)

Bug Fixes

• enforce allowed-account-ids on all auth paths (#1847) (4d281fb)

6.2.0 (2026-06-01)

Features

• add additional session tags by default (#1775) (e0ba768)
• add more retry logic and better logging (#1764) (540d0c1)
• add regex validation to role-session-name (#1765) (e354499)
• Allow custom session tags to be passed when assuming a role (#1759) (61f50f6)
• expose run id in STS client user-agent (#1774) (29d1be3)
• support custom STS endpoints (#1762) (8d52d05)

Bug Fixes

• skip credential check on output-env-credentials: false (#1778) (58e7c47)
• assumeRole failing from session tag size too large (#1808) (d6f5dc3)

6.1.3 (2026-05-28)

Bug Fixes

• fix: allow kubelet token symlink in #1805

6.1.2 (2026-05-26)

Bug Fixes

• additional filesystem checks (#1799) (c39f282)

6.1.1 (2026-05-05)

Miscellaneous Chores

• various dependency updates

6.1.0 (2026-04-06)

Features

• add skip cleanup option (#1716) (11b1c58), closes #1545
• Support usage of AWS Profiles (#1696) (a7f0c82)

Commits

• e6de054 chore(main): release 6.2.3 (#1878)
• ab3b2ba chore: Update dist
• fa8d6a5 fix: PackedPolicyTooLarge detection in STS tags (#1899)
• 42e118a chore(deps-dev): bump markdownlint-cli from 0.49.0 to 0.49.1 (#1896)
• d86ddfc chore: Update dist
• 874aaac chore(deps): bump @​aws-sdk/client-sts from 3.1086.0 to 3.1091.0 (#1892)
• d4341b6 chore: Update dist
• fe51823 chore(deps-dev): bump @​aws-sdk/credential-provider-env (#1894)
• a8be382 chore(deps-dev): bump @​biomejs/biome from 2.5.3 to 2.5.4 (#1893)
• e000376 chore: Update dist
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