always enable tracing header injection for AWS requests

[tlhunter]

What does this PR do?

• always injects aws tracing headers
• see enable tracing header injection for AWS requests #3796, fix 403 error from AWS when sending a signed request #205, Allow Datadog trace headers when using AWS IAM authentication #3719 for more information

Motivation

• I don't believe this has caused issues for users in years
• users are complaining that this isn't the default behavior
• users are unable to programmatically change config in certain environments
  • technically this could be solved by adding another env var

Plugin Checklist

• Unit tests.
• TypeScript definitions.
• TypeScript tests.
• API documentation.
• CircleCI jobs/workflows.
• Plugin is exported.

Additional Notes

[github-actions]

Overall package size

Self size: 7.15 MB
Deduped: 62.51 MB
No deduping: 62.79 MB

Dependency sizes

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[pr-commenter]

Benchmarks

Benchmark execution time: 2024-09-24 16:59:35

Comparing candidate commit 90fef58 in PR branch tlhunter/aws-always-trace with baseline commit b079c6f in branch master.

Found 0 performance improvements and 0 performance regressions! Performance is the same for 260 metrics, 6 unstable metrics.

[Romack]

Just want to point out that removing enablePropagationWithAmazonHeaders from the types file is a breaking change and should've been a major version update. Any typescript projects that that have implemented this "workaround" (e.g. us) will receive the following error if/when they upgrade dd-trace from 5.22.0 to version 5.23.1

Object literal may only specify known properties, and 'enablePropagationWithAmazonHeaders' does not exist in type 'http'.

[alxgrk]

Unfortunately, this change broke our production environment, because it made AWS requests fail. Specifically, it it the following request that fails:

const {S3} = require('@aws-sdk/client-s3');
const awsS3Client = new S3();
const response = await awsS3Client
      .getObject({
        Bucket: 'my-bucket',
        Key: 'my-file',
        IfNoneMatch: 'my-etag',
      });

We tested both, with [email protected] as well as with @aws-sdk/[email protected] - same result.

From reading the different PRs/issues, it looks like since 2018 (here) the exception for signed AWS requests existed. In November 2023, it got removed (here), but reverted on the same day (here), because some users were facing issues. For some reason that I can not yet understand, it was assumed in this PR that the errors won't show up again. Is there any reason that led to this assumption?
As a workaround, we reverted to 5.22.0, but of course this error prevents us from upgrading.

PS: I have also submitted a helpdesk request, but wanted to make this problem visible to others as well.

EDIT: I have to correct myself, for aws-sdk@v3 the error was different (region missing in my example). So I assume, this issue only affects aws-sdk@v2.

[tlhunter]

@alxgrk from the research I had done it appeared that Amazon had fixed the bug which caused any arbitrary header to affect the signature. I didn't realize this was only fixed with SDK v3 and not with v2.

We'll work on reverting this change, perhaps just for SDK v2 and not for v3.

[alxgrk]

thanks @tlhunter , sounds like a plan 👍

[tlhunter]

Has anyone seen this affect v3 of the AWS SDK? And has anyone seen this affect any service other than S3?

[tmercswims]

This change broke our production as well. We still use aws-sdk v2, and get a signature mismatch error on many (but not all, interestingly) requests to DynamoDB. Downgrading to 5.22.0 fixes the errors.