# Netflix/consoleme

A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access

Repository: https://github.com/Netflix/consoleme
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/consoleme
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: aws-iam, aws, security-tools, cloud-security
Archived: true
Last push: 2026-03-03T18:38:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 70, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2485, "days_push": 183, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3196, forks 280 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:48.332055+00:00)

## What it is
ConsoleMe is a web service from Netflix that centralizes AWS IAM permission management, offering console login, self-service permission requests in plain English, and policy generation across accounts. The open-source project was archived and set to read-only in March 2026.

## Use cases
- manage aws iam permissions centrally
- let users self-service request aws iam roles
- generate cross-account resource policies automatically
- log in to aws console with temporary credentials
- audit and review aws access across accounts

## When to choose
- you need a self-hosted control plane for AWS permissions and can fork and maintain it yourself
- your organization wants plain-English IAM permission requests with auto-generated policies

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software - the project is archived and read-only
- you cannot operate and patch a fork of a large Python codebase yourself
- you want a managed or vendor-supported IAM solution

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: abandoned
- function: auth, authorization, security, self-hosted, http-server
- domain: cloud-computing, security, infrastructure-as-code
- platform: python, self-hosted, cloud
- tags: aws-iam, cloud-security, access-management, credential-management, netflix, archived, devops, web-server, docker

## Member repositories
- Netflix/consoleme (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:48.332055+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:24:53.077981+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Netflix/consoleme (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:48.332055+00:00, sha a85ba71462d5)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/consoleme/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:38:34.670579+00:00, sha 2be0de626c86)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.