Best Practices For Secret Manager
- Secret should be encrypted With KMS Customer Master Keys
- Ensure that AWS Secrets Manager service enforces data-at-rest encryption using KMS CMKs.
- Secret Rotation should be enabled
- Ensure that automatic rotation is enabled for your Amazon Secrets Manager secrets.
- Ensure that Amazon Secrets Manager’s automatic rotation interval is properly configured.
- Ensure that AWS Secrets Manager is in use for secure and efficient credentials management.
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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