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## What is elhaz?

elhaz is a local daemon-backed AWS temporary credential broker, exposed over a Unix socket and controlled via CLI.

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

elhaz caches AWS sessions for however long the daemon is kept alive (or sessions are removed by command), 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 into one model.**

elhaz was authored by [Mike Letts](https://github.com/michaelthomasletts) and is maintained by [61418](https://github.com/61418).

## Installation

With `uv`:

```bash
uv tool install elhaz
```

With `pipx`:

```bash
pipx install elhaz
```

## Usage

To get started, check the [quickstart guide](https://61418.io/elhaz/quickstart.html).

To learn critical concepts for using this tool, check the [concepts section](https://61418.io/elhaz/concepts/index.html) of the docs.

For technical details, check the [CLI docs](https://61418.io/elhaz/cli/index.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).