A proxy that permits to connect to the AWS managed Elasticsearch cluster protected with the AWS authentication accessing kibana and other stuffs without authentication.

pip install aws-es-auth-proxy

To lunch the application you have to set some parameter in the command line. The only required parameter is aws_service_endpoint which require the AWS ElasticSearch endpoint. The AWS credential is loaded automatically following the boto3 priority (http://boto3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/configuration.html#configuring-credentials)

For example:

aws-es-auth-proxy --aws_service_endpoint search-mydomain-id.eu-west-1.es.amazonaws.com

For security purpose the service starts automatically listening only in localhost on port 8080.

To access to kibana you have to connect with your browser to

http://127.0.0.0.1:8080