[IDEA] Cannot authenticate to AWS use rolesanywhere authentication using built in S3 tools in Mirth

[rp-ryanwilson]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We are using rolesanywhere to authenticate to Mirth to access S3 buckets. This requires a list of trust-anchor-arn, role-arn, profile-arn, certificate, and private key. This has to be reauthenticated every x number of minutes and a new token is provided to go along with the access key and secret access key. In order to accomplish this now we have a channel that calls a command line process to execute and refresh the token and keys. These are stored to global variables then a custom jar file is called that utilizes these to interact with the S3 bucket via javascript Reader/Writer.

Describe your use case
We do not want to use custom jar files and command line executions to interact with Amazon S3 buckets as that should be built into Mirth.

Describe the solution you'd like
We would like to be able to have options under the Amazon S3 built in configuration in Mirth to authenticate using rolesanywhere.

Describe alternatives you've considered
The alternative solution we are using is to use custom jar files and javascript in Mirth.

[pacmano1]

Not sure Nextgen is monitoring this GitHub for feature requests since they closed source Mirth. You might need to open a ticket with their support team if you are a licensed customer. Or create this issue on one or both of the two forks.

[rp-ryanwilson]

I opened a case with NextGen and they directed me to submit this here in GitHub, so I don't know.

[pacmano1]

It would nice to get an official statement from their team. Thanks for sharing that.