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Additional settings for Govcloud AWS customers#7415

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The current documentation hits the commercial STS endpoint, but customers on Govcloud will need to hit the Govcloud STS and this setting helps with that.

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The current documentation hits the commercial STS endpoint, but customers on Govcloud will need to hit the Govcloud STS and this setting helps with that.
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might as well clean up these extra spaces

2. Replace with the actual `AWS_ROLE_ARN` for the IAM role you created in step 3

::::{note}
If your cluster runs in an AWS GovCloud region, add the following environment variable to force the AWS SDK to use the correct regional STS endpoint. Without this, authentication can fail with an `InvalidIdentityTokenException`.

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If your cluster runs in an AWS GovCloud region, add the following environment variable to force the AWS SDK to use the correct regional STS endpoint. Without this, authentication can fail with an `InvalidIdentityTokenException`.
If your cluster runs in an AWS GovCloud region, add the following environment variable to force the AWS SDK to use the correct regional STS endpoint. Without this, authentication can fail with an `InvalidIdentityTokenException`.

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