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# Loading Credentials in Node.js from a JSON File
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You can load configuration and credentials from a JSON document on disk using `AWS.config.loadFromPath`. The path specified is relative to the current working directory of your process. For example, to load credentials from a `'config.json'` file with the following content:

```
{ "accessKeyId": <YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_ID>, "secretAccessKey": <YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>, "region": "us-east-1" }
```

Then use the following code:

```
var AWS = require("aws-sdk");
AWS.config.loadFromPath('./config.json');
```

**Note**  
Loading configuration data from a JSON document resets all existing configuration data. Add additional configuration data after using this technique. Loading credentials from a JSON document is not supported in browser scripts.