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README Doc update #1719

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README Doc update #1719

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Clarify that credentials from file are loaded only once.

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@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ The SDK searches the following locations for credentials:
* From an instance profile when running on EC2, or from the ECS credential provider when running in an ECS container with that feature enabled.
* If using `~/.aws/config` or `~/.aws/credentials` a `:profile` option can be used to choose the proper credentials.

**The shared configuration files are being loaded ONLY when a service client is initialized.**
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Proposed wording change:

**Shared configuration is loaded only a single time, and credentials are provided statically at client creation time. Shared credentials do not refresh.**

@cjyclaire cjyclaire merged commit d41c7da into master Feb 26, 2018
rcrews pushed a commit to rcrews/aws-sdk-ruby that referenced this pull request Mar 12, 2018
* Doc updates [ci skip]
@cjyclaire cjyclaire deleted the doc-update branch March 20, 2018 19:27
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