99designs/aws-vault

Health v2 · maintenance only

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8985 stars · 831 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

AWS Vault is a CLI tool that securely stores AWS IAM credentials in the operating system's native keystore (macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager, etc.) and generates temporary credentials for shells and applications. It integrates with AWS CLI profiles and supports MFA and role assumption, though the project is now abandoned in favor of an active fork.

Use cases

• securely store aws credentials on my laptop
• avoid putting aws access keys in plaintext config files
• run aws cli with temporary credentials and mfa
• switch between aws profiles safely
• assume aws roles from the command line
• keep aws session tokens in the os keychain

When to choose

• you need secure local storage of AWS credentials with temporary session generation
• you want MFA and role-assumption support integrated with ~/.aws/config profiles
• you are fine using the maintained fork (ByteNess/aws-vault) for ongoing updates

When to avoid

• you need a tool that is actively maintained - this repo is abandoned
• you need server-side or team-wide secrets management rather than local developer credentials
• you need a GUI or non-CLI workflow

Facets

cli-tool · maturity abandoned

security secrets-management cli auth cloud-computing security developer-tools windows cli cross-platform aws credentials temporary-credentials mfa keychain iam aws-cli command-line macos linux

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