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## What is elhaz?

elhaz is a local AWS credential broker daemon exposed over a Unix socket.

Instead of a locally hosted HTTP metadata emulation service (ECS), which requires multiple processes for each assumed RoleArn, elhaz runs a single process (which accepts multiple concurrent connections) and serves automatically refreshed temporary AWS credentials on demand. 

It caches AWS sessions for however long the daemon is kept alive, which eliminates redundant session creations and STS calls. 

Unix-socket IPC is lightweight and gives a tighter local boundary than HTTP, avoids exposing local credential endpoints over TCP, and allows temporary credentials to live in memory rather than at rest on disk.

elhaz makes multi-role local AWS workflows cleaner by combining brokered access, in-memory caching, and host-local IPC in one model.

## Installation

With `uv`:

```bash
uv tool install elhaz
```

With `pipx`:

```bash
pipx install elhaz
```

## Usage

Refer to the [quickstart guide](https://61418.io/quickstart.html).

## License

elhaz is licensed by the [Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0)](https://github.com/61418/elhaz/blob/main/LICENSE).

## Contributing

Refer to the [contributing guidelines](https://github.com/61418/elhaz?tab=contributing-ov-file).