AWS Secrets Manager

Score9.7 out of 10

8 Reviews and Ratings

What is AWS Secrets Manager?

AWS Secrets Manager enables users to rotate, manage, and retrieve secrets throughout their lifecycle, making it easier to maintain a secure environment that meets security and compliance needs. With Secrets Manager, administrators pay based on the number of secrets stored and API calls made.

Categories & Use Cases

Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have most of our infra on AWS, so naturally, AWS Secrets Manager plays a key role in managing the secrets.

Be it DB connection string, url, username, password, etc. all the little pieces that allow a service to connect to other services to do meaningful things, we store everything in AWS Secrets Manager.

Pros

Single source of truth for secrets
Securely share secrets with colleagues
Securely store secrets for services to access during runtime

Cons

The whole secret vs key-value naming could be confusing for beginner
The lack of history is quite inconvenient

Return on Investment

The ability to securely store & share secrets greatly improves security posture
Services can be made to retrieve secrets externally at runtime
Can control secrets for different environments for different groups of people

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Azure Key Vault

Other Software Used

AWS Certificate Manager, AWS Systems Manager, Amazon CloudWatch

Manuela Jacqueline Mercado Rodríguez View profile

Full Stack Software Engineer in Engineering at Intellisys D. Corp. (51-200 employees employees)