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+Enhancement: Use default AWS credentials chain for S3 backend
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+Adds support for file credentials to the S3 backend (e.g. ~/.aws/credentials),
+and reorders the credentials chain for the S3 backend to match AWS's standard,
+which is static credentials, env vars, credentials file, and finally remote.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1782
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