diff --git a/AmplifyPlugins/Auth/Sources/AWSCognitoAuthPlugin/AWSCognitoAuthPlugin+AppSyncSigner.swift b/AmplifyPlugins/Auth/Sources/AWSCognitoAuthPlugin/AWSCognitoAuthPlugin+AppSyncSigner.swift
index 0f7a15d304..c0fb27d26a 100644
--- a/AmplifyPlugins/Auth/Sources/AWSCognitoAuthPlugin/AWSCognitoAuthPlugin+AppSyncSigner.swift
+++ b/AmplifyPlugins/Auth/Sources/AWSCognitoAuthPlugin/AWSCognitoAuthPlugin+AppSyncSigner.swift
@@ -6,23 +6,25 @@
 //
 
 import Foundation
+import Amplify // Amplify.Auth
+import AWSPluginsCore // AuthAWSCredentialsProvider
 import AWSClientRuntime // AWSClientRuntime.CredentialsProviding
 import ClientRuntime // SdkHttpRequestBuilder
-import InternalAmplifyCredentials // AmplifyAWSCredentialsProvider()
 import AwsCommonRuntimeKit // CommonRuntimeKit.initialize()
 
 extension AWSCognitoAuthPlugin {
 
     public static func createAppSyncSigner(region: String) -> ((URLRequest) async throws -> URLRequest) {
         return { request in
-            try await signAppSyncRequest(request, region: region)
+            try await signAppSyncRequest(request, 
+                                         region: region)
         }
     }
-    public static func signAppSyncRequest(_ urlRequest: URLRequest,
-                                          region: Swift.String,
-                                          credentialsProvider: AWSClientRuntime.CredentialsProviding = AmplifyAWSCredentialsProvider(),
-                                          signingName: Swift.String = "appsync",
-                                          date: ClientRuntime.Date = Date()) async throws -> URLRequest {
+    
+    static func signAppSyncRequest(_ urlRequest: URLRequest,
+                                   region: Swift.String,
+                                   signingName: Swift.String = "appsync",
+                                   date: ClientRuntime.Date = Date()) async throws -> URLRequest {
         CommonRuntimeKit.initialize()
 
         // Convert URLRequest to SDK's HTTPRequest
@@ -32,7 +34,15 @@ extension AWSCognitoAuthPlugin {
         }
 
         // Retrieve the credentials from credentials provider
-        let credentials = try await credentialsProvider.getCredentials()
+        let credentials: AWSClientRuntime.AWSCredentials
+        let authSession = try await Amplify.Auth.fetchAuthSession()
+        if let awsCredentialsProvider = authSession as? AuthAWSCredentialsProvider {
+            let awsCredentials = try awsCredentialsProvider.getAWSCredentials().get()
+            credentials = awsCredentials.toAWSSDKCredentials()
+        } else {
+            let error = AuthError.unknown("Auth session does not include AWS credentials information")
+            throw error
+        }
 
         // Prepare signing
         let flags = SigningFlags(useDoubleURIEncode: true,
@@ -100,3 +110,22 @@ extension AWSCognitoAuthPlugin {
         return requestBuilder
     }
 }
+
+extension AWSPluginsCore.AWSCredentials {
+
+    func toAWSSDKCredentials() -> AWSClientRuntime.AWSCredentials {
+        if let tempCredentials = self as? AWSTemporaryCredentials {
+            return AWSClientRuntime.AWSCredentials(
+                accessKey: tempCredentials.accessKeyId,
+                secret: tempCredentials.secretAccessKey,
+                expirationTimeout: tempCredentials.expiration,
+                sessionToken: tempCredentials.sessionToken)
+        } else {
+            return AWSClientRuntime.AWSCredentials(
+                accessKey: accessKeyId,
+                secret: secretAccessKey,
+                expirationTimeout: Date())
+        }
+
+    }
+}
diff --git a/AmplifyPlugins/Auth/Tests/AuthHostApp/AuthIntegrationTests/AppSyncSignerTests/AppSyncSignerTests.swift b/AmplifyPlugins/Auth/Tests/AuthHostApp/AuthIntegrationTests/AppSyncSignerTests/AppSyncSignerTests.swift
index d4311b4885..02cedefdfb 100644
--- a/AmplifyPlugins/Auth/Tests/AuthHostApp/AuthIntegrationTests/AppSyncSignerTests/AppSyncSignerTests.swift
+++ b/AmplifyPlugins/Auth/Tests/AuthHostApp/AuthIntegrationTests/AppSyncSignerTests/AppSyncSignerTests.swift
@@ -15,14 +15,14 @@ class AppSyncSignerTests: AWSAuthBaseTest {
     ///
     /// - Given: Base test configures Amplify and adds AWSCognitoAuthPlugin
     /// - When:
-    ///    - I invoke AWSCognitoAuthPlugin.signAppSyncRequest(request, region)
+    ///    - I invoke AWSCognitoAuthPlugin's AppSync signer
     /// - Then:
     ///    - I should get a signed request.
     ///
     func testSignAppSyncRequest() async throws {
         let request = URLRequest(url: URL(string: "http://graphql.com")!)
-        let signedRequest = try await AWSCognitoAuthPlugin.signAppSyncRequest(request, region: "us-east-1")
-
+        let signer = AWSCognitoAuthPlugin.createAppSyncSigner(region: "us-east-1")
+        let signedRequest = try await signer(request)
         guard let headers = signedRequest.allHTTPHeaderFields else {
             XCTFail("Missing headers")
             return
diff --git a/AmplifyPlugins/Core/AmplifyCredentials/AmplifyAWSCredentialsProvider.swift b/AmplifyPlugins/Core/AmplifyCredentials/AmplifyAWSCredentialsProvider.swift
index 633ae9e986..8a45c1d64a 100644
--- a/AmplifyPlugins/Core/AmplifyCredentials/AmplifyAWSCredentialsProvider.swift
+++ b/AmplifyPlugins/Core/AmplifyCredentials/AmplifyAWSCredentialsProvider.swift
@@ -12,10 +12,7 @@ import AWSPluginsCore
 import Foundation
 
 public class AmplifyAWSCredentialsProvider: AWSClientRuntime.CredentialsProviding {
-
-    public init() {
-    }
-
+    
     public func getCredentials() async throws -> AWSClientRuntime.AWSCredentials {
         let authSession = try await Amplify.Auth.fetchAuthSession()
         if let awsCredentialsProvider = authSession as? AuthAWSCredentialsProvider {