Introduction

This service will allow applications to create and manage AWS IAM accounts without ever having access to the main account's credentials. This opens up new possibilities for mobile and client-side applications to use AWS services on the author's behalf, without having to register or be charged separately. Without some sort of third-party service hosting and serving the keys, this is not possible in many situations.

Installation

1. Open app.yaml and change the value of the application field to a Google App Engine application id registered to you.
2. Open credentials.py and fill in your main AWS credentials.
3. Open permissions.py and fill in the groups you want the service to be able to add users to.
4. Run appcfg.py update . to upload the application to the Google App Engine servers.

Usage

At the moment, only the following operation(s) are supported:

• /create_user?group=group_name - Creates a new user in the group group_name. If there are no errors, the response will be a string of the form aws_access_key_id:aws_secret_access_key which can be used immediately.

Policy

To prevent DDOS attacks against your service, awskeyserver optionally supports PolicyHandlers that can present various challenges to clients which they must pass in order to obtain a key. The following are currently supported:

• reCAPTCHA: If a CaptchaValidator is assigned to a group, a request will be met with a reCAPTCHA challenge id instead. The client must use the id to fetch the corresponding reCAPTCHA image, and send the response to awskeyserver, where it will be verified. If it passes, only then will the account key be created and returned.

TODO

At the moment, the created account has no permissions. Eventually, permissions.py will be expanded to define rules for groups based on various factors.

Author

awskeyserver was thought up and written by Adrian Petrescu ([email protected]). Please contact me with any questions or suggestions.