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I believe you should be able to create an explicit aws provider and pass in the credentials you'd like to use: <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pkg/aws/provider/>

That's the generic pulumi answer (not automation api specific). There are some other options such as environment variables that you could set on the workspace: <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/cloud-providers/aws/setup/>