aws-requests-auth

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aws-requests-auth on PyPI

pip install aws-requests-auth

uv add aws-requests-auth

poetry add aws-requests-auth

Package facts

Evidence: aws_requests_auth-0.4.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl

About aws-requests-auth

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pip install aws-requests-auth

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This package adds AWS Signature Version 4 authentication to the requests library, allowing you to make authenticated HTTP calls to AWS services like Elasticsearch with your AWS credentials.

Installation is straightforward with low friction—a single pure-Python wheel dependency on requests. However, the package is abandoned as of 2020-05-27 with no commits for over 2,200 days, so maintenance and security updates are not expected.

The package carries a permissive BSD license, which imposes minimal restrictions on use, modification, and distribution.

pip install aws-requests-auth

import requests
from aws_requests_auth.aws_auth import AWSRequestsAuth

auth = AWSRequestsAuth(aws_access_key='YOUR_KEY',
                       aws_secret_access_key='YOUR_SECRET',
                       aws_host='example.us-east-1.es.amazonaws.com',
                       aws_region='us-east-1',
                       aws_service='es')
response = requests.get('http://example.us-east-1.es.amazonaws.com', auth=auth)

Verdict: aws-requests-auth is a lightweight, permissively licensed tool for signing AWS requests with the requests library. Its low install friction and lack of known vulnerabilities make it technically sound for immediate use. However, the project has been abandoned since mid-2020 with no recent maintenance, so it carries risk for long-term reliance—AWS authentication practices may evolve, and security issues discovered after abandonment will not be patched.

Needs verification

• Whether AWS Signature Version 4 signing has changed since the last release in May 2020 in ways that would break compatibility.
• Whether the package works correctly with modern versions of the requests library and Python 3.9+.
• Whether there are known issues or edge cases in the GitHub repository's open issues that affect production use.

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