# mitchellh/vagrant-aws

Use Vagrant to manage your EC2 and VPC instances.

Repository: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-aws
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vagrant-aws
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2021-06-04T16:51:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4956, "days_push": 1916, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2587, forks 566 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:02.757484+00:00)

## What it is
A Vagrant plugin that adds an AWS provider, letting Vagrant boot, SSH into, and provision EC2 and VPC instances. It supports multi-region configuration, rsync synced folders, and packaging running instances into Vagrant boxes.

## Use cases
- manage EC2 instances with vagrant up
- provision AWS VPC machines using Vagrant provisioners
- spin up test VMs on AWS from a Vagrantfile
- manage instances across multiple AWS regions with Vagrant
- package a running EC2 instance into a Vagrant box
- use Vagrant workflow for cloud development environments

## When to choose
- you already use Vagrant and want the same workflow for AWS EC2/VPC
- you need reproducible cloud VM provisioning with Vagrant provisioners
- you want to manage machines in multiple AWS regions from one Vagrantfile

## When to avoid
- you need Terraform-style declarative infrastructure management rather than VM lifecycle
- you target cloud providers other than AWS
- you need actively developed features - the project has seen limited releases since 2021

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: deployment, infrastructure-as-code, configuration-management, developer-tools
- domain: cloud-computing, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform, ruby
- tags: vagrant, aws, ec2, vpc, vagrant-plugin, cloud-provider, provisioning, devops, automation

## Member repositories
- mitchellh/vagrant-aws (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:02.757484+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 2026-08-30T02:22:25.182708+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-aws (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:02.757484+00:00, sha 00ebd2e9479e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.