zsh completion for list of possible values of an environment variable

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Consider an environment variable that can take a list of arbitrary possible meaningful values. For an example of such an environment variable consider AWS_PROFILE. The list of possible values can be easily computed by some command, e. g. aws configure list-profiles. Is there any way I can write a custom completion such as whenever I type

% AWS_PROFILE=<TAB>
% AWS_PROFILE=partial-profile-nam<TAB>

or

% export AWS_PROFILE=<TAB>
% export AWS_PROFILE=partial-profile-nam<TAB>

I can get the completion function run and suggest the list of possible values.

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