diff --git a/docs/Credentials_Providers.md b/docs/Credentials_Providers.md
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--- a/docs/Credentials_Providers.md
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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ The default credential provider chain does the following:
 3. Contacts and logs in to a trusted identity provider (Cognito, Login with Amazon, Facebook, Google). The sdk looks for the login information to these providers either on the environment variables: AWS_ROLE_ARN, AWS_WEB_IDENTITY_TOKEN_FILE, AWS_ROLE_SESSION_NAME. Or on a profile in your $HOME/.aws/credentials.
 4. Checks for an external method set as part of a profile on $HOME/.aws/config to generate or look up credentials that isn't directly supported by AWS.
 5. Contacts the ECS TaskRoleCredentialsProvider service to request credentials if Environment variable AWS_CONTAINER_CREDENTIALS_RELATIVE_URI has been set. 
-6. Contacts the EC2MetadataInstanceProfileCredentialsProvider service to request credentials if AWS_EC2_METADATA_DISABLED is NOT set to ON. 
+6. Contacts the EC2MetadataInstanceProfileCredentialsProvider service to request credentials if the AWS_EC2_METADATA_DISABLED environment variable is NOT set to `true`.
 
 The simplest way to communicate with AWS is to ensure we can find your credentials in one of these locations.