README.md

aws-tools

Collection of tools to help with local development on AWS

update-sts-credentials.py

Usage: $(eval update-sts-credentials.py profileName accountId userName MFAToken)

This script will fetch STS credentials using the existing credentials in your ~/.aws/config file. It will then make a copy of your existing credentials and replace them in ~/.aws/config with the STS credentials.

The script will output export AWS_...= statements that can be sourced in a shell to have them availble for use in scripts and tools that do not use the ~/.aws/credentials file natively

Place the following in your relevant dotfile to make the most of the tool:

function use-aws-myprofile {
  utilPath="/Users/amatheny/code/aws-utils/"
  $(eval ${utilPath}/update-sts-credentials.py myprofile 13132351668 Andrew $1)
}

This approach is most useful for when you want to have destructive API operations restricted by MFA

To have something like this setup, create an IAM group with two policies, one the vanilla AWS provided ReadOnly policy, and the other an inline policy with the following json

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "*",
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "Bool": {
                    "aws:MultiFactorAuthPresent": "true"
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}