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Nike-Inc
gimme-aws-creds
Python2020–2022
Nike-Inc / gimme-aws-creds

gimme-aws-creds

A CLI that utilizes Okta IdP via SAML to acquire temporary AWS credentials

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
973GitHub stars
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What it is

A CLI that utilizes Okta IdP via SAML to acquire temporary AWS credentials

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2020-01-28 12:33:33 UTC to 2022-10-13 19:12:02 UTC.

0122020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Ah, it's SAML-specific (https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/Nike-Inc/gimme-aws-creds/...) although the majority of BS4 seems to be about driving Okta not AWS: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/Nike-Inc/gimme-aws-creds/... Yeah, SAML is, as far as I know, always headed. My copy of aws-vault is bright enough to launch against our AWS SSO provider(1), which secretly is also SAML to Okta, but I guess if your company's setup doesn't use AWS SSO then Nike must have thought parsing HTML to be The Solution™ 1: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/99designs/aws-vault/-/blo...
In The State of AWS Security
IAM is going to be "required" for the root account, though, shutting that away is a good practice. In lieu of IAM you can use federated access from an identity provider like Okta. That will lease a role which can then adopt other roles (even across accounts). Okta is integrated with a more formal IT system like Active Directory and then all your accesses and identity can be managed by them. I think this is the AWS side doc for the setup https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_pr... I also know Nike does something very similar and shared about it here https://github.com/Nike-Inc/gimme-aws-creds including the Okta side documentation.
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