Benefits Of Using AWS Secrets Manager
- Rotate Secrets Safely: AWS Secrets Manager allows us to meet our security requirements by properly rotating secrets without any need for code deployments.
- Manage Access With IAM Policies: We can manage access to secrets with the help of Secrets Manager, secrets retrieval also needs IAM permissions, only retrieved by user or group with IAM permissions.
- Secure And Audit Secrets Centrally: Secrets Manager allows us to help secure secrets by encrypting them using encryption keys managed by AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS).
- Pay As You Go: We are charged based on the number of secrets managed in Secrets Manager as well as the number of API calls made using Secrets Manager.
- Easily Replicate Secrets To Multiple Regions: AWS Secrets Manager makes it simple to replicate secrets across various AWS regions in order to support multi-region applications and disaster recovery situations.
What Is AWS Secrets Manager ?
AWS Secret Manager is a service that stores our sensitive information as keys and gets encrypted as part of a secret. We will fetch our secrets using code. In this article, we will describe what a Secret Manager is, how it works, and what are benefits and best practices of using Secret Manager are. We will also create sample secrets using the AWS console.
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