AWS Vault

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "# AWS Vault\n\n[![Downloads](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/99designs/aws-vault/total.svg)](https://github.com/99designs/aws-vault/releases)\n[![Continuous Integration](https://github.com/99designs/aws-vault/workflows/Continuous%20Integration/badge.svg)](https://github.com/99designs/aws-vault/actions)\n\n\u003e [!WARNING]\n\u003e This project has been abandoned and it\u0027s not receiving any more updates. If you want to continue to receive updates\n\u003e or contribute, please feel free to look at the active fork at: https://github.com/ByteNess/aws-vault\n\nAWS Vault is a tool to securely store and access AWS credentials in a development environment.\n\nAWS Vault stores IAM credentials in your operating system\u0027s secure keystore and then generates temporary credentials from those to expose to your shell and applications. It\u0027s designed to be complementary to the AWS CLI tools, and is aware of your [profiles and configuration in `~/.aws/config`](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html#cli-config-files).\n\nCheck out the [announcement blog post](https://99designs.com.au/tech-blog/blog/2015/10/26/aws-vault/) for more details.\n\n## Installing\n\nYou can install AWS Vault:\n- by downloading the [latest release](https://github.com/99designs/aws-vault/releases/latest)\n- on macOS with [Homebrew](https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/aws-vault): `brew install aws-vault`\n- on macOS with [MacPorts](https://ports.macports.org/port/aws-vault/summary): `port install aws-vault`\n- on Windows with [Chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org/packages/aws-vault): `choco install aws-vault`\n- on Windows with [Scoop](https://scoop.sh/): `scoop install aws-vault`\n- on Linux with [Homebrew on Linux](https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/aws-vault): `brew install aws-vault`\n- on [Arch Linux](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/aws-vault/): `pacman -S aws-vault`\n- on [Gentoo Linux](https://github.com/gentoo/guru/tree/master/app-admin/aws-vault): `emerge --ask app-admin/aws-vault` ([e",
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