Requests to AWS services need to have their headers signed. This can be accomplished by using the [`aws4`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/aws4) package. This is an example for querying an ["Elasticsearch Service"](https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/) host with a signed request.
```js
const url = require('url');
const AWS = require('aws-sdk');
const aws4 = require('aws4');
const got = require('got');
const config = require('./config');
// Reads keys from the environment or `~/.aws/credentials`. Could be a plain object.
const awsConfig = new AWS.Config({ region: config.region });
function request(uri, options) {
const awsOpts = {
region: awsConfig.region,
headers: {
accept: 'application/json',
'content-type': 'application/json'
},
method: 'GET',
json: true
};
// We need to parse the URL before passing it to `got` so `aws4` can sign the request