No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
aws-encryption-sdk has 3.4M monthly downloads and 254 GitHub stars. Version 4.0.6, first published in 2017.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.
It is built on top of attrs, boto3 and cryptography. It is used by 10 tracked packages, including localstack-ext, aws-encryption-sdk-cli and mind-castle.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
53
Adoption
70
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
11 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,377,780
•
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
3,377,780
Stars
254
Stars per 1k downloads
0.08
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
•
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
106,019
Month daily avg
112,593
Momentum
-5.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
•
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
Apache License 2.0
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
61 days ago
Total releases
38
Releases/year
4.1
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
•
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
53
Monthly downloads
3,377,780
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
75
Issue Burden
94.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
60.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
60.6K
macOS
67
Windows
54
Python Versions
3.9
36.3%
20.7K
3.11
32.3%
18.4K
3.12
17.4%
9.9K
3.10
8.7%
5.0K
3.13
5.3%
3.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
44.2K
US
2.
IE
2.1K
IE
3.
JP
1.7K
JP
4.
DE
1.5K
DE
5.
AU
1.0K
AU
6.
CA
1.0K
CA
7.
IN
946
IN
8.
SG
801
SG
9.
CN
775
CN
10.
GB
667
GB
Dependencies
4
- attrs >=17.4.0
- boto3 >=1.10.0
- cryptography >=3.4.6
- wrapt >=1.10.11
1 optional dependencies
Package Information
License
Apache License 2.0
First Release
March 21, 2017
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
4.0.6
Total Releases
38
Contributors
53
Open PRs
30
Archived
No
Author
Amazon Web Services
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
Wheels
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh