Add optional AWS SDK v2-based MONGODB-AWS authenticator submodule

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    • Type: New Feature
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Priority: Major - P3
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    • Component/s: Authentication
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      The built in MONGODB-AWS authenticator in the Go driver uses a minimal internal AWS implementation that derives the signing region from the server-sent STS host (sm.Host), ignoring standard AWS SDK environment variables like AWS_STS_REGIONAL_ENDPOINT=regional and AWS_REGION. This forces users to create custom authenticator solutions which can be rather complicated (see here).

      This ticket proposes that we create an optional submodule:

      go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/v2/x/driver/auth/mongoaws

      That depends on github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2 so that users can optionally register an AuthenticatorFactory that uses the official AWS SDK

      import _ "go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/v2/x/driver/auth/mongoaws" // Registers authenticator using official AWS SDK

      Alternatively, we should investigate using a build tag to enable AWS as an optional dependency.

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              Preston Vasquez
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