# aws-vault mit Homebrew, chocolatey, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop, winget installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für aws-vault in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:aws-vault ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install aws-vault ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install aws-vault ``` Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: security/aws-vault/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#aws-vault ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/aw/aws-vault/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S aws-vault ``` Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: aws-vault from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz ### Windows - Chocolatey (92%): ```sh choco install aws-vault ``` Evidenz: Chocolatey community package catalog: aws-vault from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','authy-desktop' - Scoop (92%): ```sh scoop install main/aws-vault ``` Evidenz: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/aws-vault.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - winget (92%): ```sh winget install --id 99designs.aws-vault -e ``` Evidenz: Windows Package Manager source index: 99designs.aws-vault from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:aws-vault - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 7.13.2 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Securely store and access AWS credentials in development environments - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-30T15:04:00Z - **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - aws-vault (Alias) ## Installationsverhalten - Bottle: nicht verfügbar ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-08-03 - Manager-Version: 7.13.2 ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung AWS Vault is a long-running AWS credential helper that stores IAM credentials in a secure backend and generates temporary credentials for local development. The Homebrew formula now tracks the maintained ByteNess fork, whose README states that it continues the abandoned 99designs project. ### Projektgeschichte The original project started at 99designs in 2015 and quickly established the `aws-vault add` plus `aws-vault exec` workflow for keeping long-term AWS keys out of plaintext shell environments. Its documentation made `~/.aws/config` the coordination point while storing secrets in platform facilities such as macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager, Secret Service, KWallet, pass, or encrypted files. In May 2025, the ByteNess fork was created as an active continuation. By June 2026 the original 99designs README warned that the old project was abandoned, while the ByteNess README called itself a maintained fork and documented newer backend support such as Windows Hello, keyctl, Passage, and 1Password options. ### Adoptionsgeschichte AWS Vault has broad package-manager reach: the original README listed Homebrew, MacPorts, Chocolatey, Scoop, Arch, Gentoo, FreeBSD, OpenSUSE, Nix, and asdf, while the ByteNess README keeps Homebrew, Chocolatey, and Nix as prominent install paths. Homebrew analytics showed several thousand 30-day formula installs in June 2026. Its adoption is tied to security posture in developer AWS accounts: teams can store persistent IAM keys in a local secure backend, require MFA, and hand commands only short-lived STS credentials. That pattern made it useful for Terraform, SDKs, CI-adjacent local scripts, and desktop apps that need AWS credentials without placing static keys in environment variables. ### Wie es verwendet wird Common usage is `aws-vault add ` followed by `aws-vault exec -- `, `aws-vault login `, or `aws-vault export` through `credential_process`. The usage guide describes executor mode, master-credential-vault mode, MFA session cache mode, and caching of alternative credential sources such as SSO and web identity. The maintained fork also documents backend selection and migration between backends, which matters for users moving between macOS Keychain, Linux desktop secret stores, 1Password, and encrypted-file fallback. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren AWS Vault matters to package nerds because it is both a security tool and a packaging case study: a mature, heavily packaged CLI moved from an abandoned original upstream to an active fork while retaining the same command name and ecosystem expectations. Homebrew formula metadata now points at ByteNess release tags rather than the older 99designs releases. ### Zeitleiste - 2015-08: Original 99designs/aws-vault repository created. - 2015-09: v1.0.0 GitHub release published by 99designs/aws-vault. - 2023-03: 99designs/aws-vault v7.2.0 published. - 2025-05: ByteNess/aws-vault repository created as the maintained fork. - 2026-06: ByteNess v7.12.4 published; Homebrew formula tracked v7.12.4. ### Related projects - `99designs/aws-vault` is the original upstream and remains the source for the legacy cask. - `aws-sso-cli`, `aws-sso-util`, and `aws2-wrap` cover adjacent IAM Identity Center workflows that became more important after AWS CLI v2. ### Quellen - - - - - ## Sicherheitshinweise Für aws-vault wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat. ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: ~/.aws/config - Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.aws\config ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Nix - aws-vault: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/aw/aws-vault/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman - aws-vault - 7.13.0-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: aws-vault from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Vault for securely storing and accessing AWS credentials in development environments | https://github.com/ByteNess/aws-vault - MacPorts - aws-vault: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: security/aws-vault/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Chocolatey - aws-vault: normalized package name match | Chocolatey community package catalog: aws-vault from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','authy-desktop' - Scoop - main/aws-vault: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/aws-vault.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - winget - 99designs.aws-vault: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: 99designs.aws-vault from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix - winget - ByteNess.AWSVault: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: ByteNess.AWSVault from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/aws-vault.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/aws-vault.yml) ## Quellen - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph