---
id: aws-requests-auth
version: "0.4.3"
license: unclear
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: abandoned
---

# aws-requests-auth — AWS signature version 4 signing process for the python requests module

License: permissive · Maintenance: abandoned · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install aws-requests-auth
uv add aws-requests-auth
poetry add aws-requests-auth

## Description

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# AWS Signature Version 4 Signing Process with python requests

This package allows you to authenticate to AWS with Amazon's [signature version 4 signing process](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/signature-version-4.html) with the python [requests](https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/) library.

Tested with both python `2.7` and `3`.

(Conceivably, the authentication class is flexible enough to be used with any AWS service, but it was initially created to interface with AWS Elasticsearch instances.)

# Installation

```
pip install aws-requests-auth
```

# Usage

```python
import requests
from aws_requests_auth.aws_auth import AWSRequestsAuth

# let's talk to our AWS Elasticsearch cluster
auth = AWSRequestsAuth(aws_access_key='YOURKEY',
                       aws_secret_access_key='YOURSECRET',
                       aws_host='search-service-foobar.us-east-1.es.amazonaws.com',
                       aws_region='us-east-1',
                       aws_service='es')

response =...

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

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.

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.

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