BMX

BMX, version 3.2.1, is a command-line utility published by D2L that streamlines secure access to Amazon Web Services by re-using existing Okta identity credentials. Instead of maintaining separate long-lived AWS keys, cloud engineers, DevOps teams, and site-reliability staff run BMX to obtain short-term, role-based API tokens that are automatically injected into local AWS credential files or environment variables. The tool is particularly useful in enterprises that have standardized on Okta for single sign-on and need friction-free entry to dozens or hundreds of AWS accounts without duplicating identity providers or manual token rotation. Typical use cases include running infrastructure-as-code pipelines, executing CLI commands such as aws s3 or aws ec2, signing SDK requests from development workstations, and switching between production, staging, and sandbox environments while staying compliant with federation policies. Because BMX negotiates SAML assertions behind the scenes, users can authenticate once through Okta and then access any AWS role they are authorized for, eliminating the security risk of stored access keys. The software is distributed in two maintained versions—3.2.1 and an earlier 2.x branch—allowing organizations to align with internal change-management schedules. As a lightweight security and cloud-management utility, BMX sits alongside other identity bridging tools yet focuses narrowly on the Okta-to-AWS workflow. BMX is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always supplying the latest build and supporting batch installation alongside multiple applications.

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