# AWS Secrets Manager Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Privileged Access Management (PAM) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/privileged-access-management-pam) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 18 ## About AWS Secrets Manager AWS Secrets Manager helps you protect secrets needed to access your applications, services, and IT resources. The service enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle. ## AWS Secrets Manager Reviews ### 1. Best way to store local settings of python / application properties of java securely **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul S. | Devops engineer, Construction, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?** Earlier we used to store our secret variables in GitHub, like DB endpoint/password. Which was not secure, and then we started to store it in SSM parameters in Secret Manager. And during build time, we "sed" all the values from SSM parameters to the application code, which made our secret values secure & inaccessible from the outside world. **What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?** Nothing much to dislike it, but during code build, we need to give permission to AWS CloudBuild to access Secret Manager and need to write in yaml files all the values which we want to fetch, but it is all process we need to do to make things good. So not a bad thing to dislike it **What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used to store our local settings of python / application properties of java files in github only, which was not secure, then we moved to use Secret manager to make it private and only accessible by those who have access. ### 2. External Secret Definition with AWS Secrets Manager for our Elastic Kubernetes clusters **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi C. | Cloud Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?** AWS Secrets Manager is a service provided by Amazon cloud platform to store, retrieve and rotate our credentials. We employ it for our database passwords, API keys, and other secrets to manage our password lifecycle. Instead of hardcoding our passwords in the code, we can easily reference our secrets which are securely stored in our Secrets Manager. **What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?** AWS Secrets Manager gives me the convenience to hold multiple versions of my credentials through its staged labels. It also allows me to maintain access priviledges when I define my IAM policies. No dislike with anything related to its service in our AWS environment. **What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We establish the external secrets of our EKS clusters using AWS Secrets Manager. Secrets Manager's configuration is convenient thanks to our AWS CLI environment, which has plenty of programmatic capabilities. Backend password configurations are compatible, and it allows external secrets to be stored in our Secrets Manager. We can also give strict access privilege definitions while working with production environments to enhance credential security. ### 3. Secrets manager review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 19, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?** Our organization mostly used it for saving sensitive information e.g private key or rds credentials. The best feature is to rotate your credentials without any hassle. The lambda custom code feature is great for rotation. **What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?** Sometimes in dev, qa environment the rotation would not happen and it required manually resetting password. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Secrets Manager:** If anyone is worried about their secured resource then aws is the way to go. It will automate your credentials renewal every specific time. **What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connecting to rds without taking care of changing rds password or keeping api keys secret and accessig through lambda ### 4. The secrets manager made it easy to store and retrieve secrets, passwords, and other sensitive keys **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Drew M. | Software engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?** The ease of integration and availability the secrets manager provides. All of my services within AWS can access it easily with a little IAM permission magic. Tapping into this service was simple and effective. **What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?** I'd like to be able to store more complex objects within the secrets manager, but that may be beyond the scope of what it was intended for. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Secrets Manager:** There are other options out there such as Consul from Hashicorp, but you'll have to setup and maintain the infrastructure yourself. This service is out of the box and easy to maintain. **What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a distributed, simple mechanism for storing authentication keys with the various services we have that need to communicate in a secure manner. ### 5. AWS Secrets Manager really works **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeff W. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2020 **What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?** The best thing is that it keeps all my secret passwords, well, secret! **What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?** It took me a while to learn the usage but I got the hang of it **What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a lot of secrets that we need to keep secret, this tool does the job. ### 6. Great alternative for Vault in the cloud **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?** Like in every AWS service, the link with an IAM role is seamless, thus allowing you to grant exact permissions to credentials stored in Secrets Manager to a specific instance/container/etc. It is managed quite easily and even integrates with other services, such as existing RDS instances, automatically. It allows rotating credentials a much easier task. **What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?** I did not find any features I do not like with SM at the moment. The service is at its very early stages, and so is our usage. However, we are certain that upon further usage we might find a few hiccups here and there. **What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used to spin up different Jenkins slaves (built via different Dockerfiles) for various jobs. Each of these containers only differed by the Amazon credentials they stored. Now, we are spinning up a single slave - and it grabs the correct credentials from the SM service using the appropriate IAM permission role (attached via CloudFormation). We are also close to integrate it with some of our other applications, especially those utilizing RDS for hosting MySQL DBs, so in the future we can rotate credentials without having to change code/app version to support that. ### 7. Managing Secrets Never Easier **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeremiah K. | Senior Project Manager, Legal Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?** The thing I like best is that we're able to rotate secrets safely without the need for code deployments. **What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?** I can't think of anything at this time that I would dislike. Our IT person doesn't have any issues with it either. **What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS Secrets Manager has been a huge help in securing the secrets in our organization. Although I can't pin point exact details, it seems like our security has been more solid with regards to passwords, etc. since using the program. ### 8. A great service if you are already in the AWS ecosystem **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?** I like how easy it is to store and rotate secrets securely. I no longer have to manage any infrastructure to manage secrets. I can rotate a secret and my service can pickup the new value with ease. **What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?** I dislike how cumbersome retrieving secrets from the Secrets Manger is. It's not as easy as using Vault. The CLI is unintuitive. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Secrets Manager:** Evaluate your needs and see if it can do the job. If you aren't all in on AWS then it might not be for you. **What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed to store some secrets for our other services to pull from. It's really easy to setup authorizations if you are already using IAM roles. ### 9. Convenient and secure place to store secrets **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Restaurants | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?** That my cloud deployed applications have an easy way to get secrets without us having to build a custom solution to integrate with another product. **What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?** If permissions aren't configured correctly, one might expose secrets to an unauthorized AWS account user. **What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We store credentials that our applications need to connect to various resources. It's nice not to have to login to yet another tool to manage secrets so this has saved us time. ### 10. Good Managing tool with lot of features **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?** We can store , rotate, monitor, and control access to secrets of lot of API's.This is great tool to hide lot of confidential information which is sensitive to business.Good thing is lot of API can restored with cheaper prices and we can manage all keys in one central repository. **What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?** Even though it has great features some times I feel its difficult to permission for certain factors and its difficult to estimate the cost. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Secrets Manager:** Strongly recommended product. **What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using this, we have stored some keys used for APP and related configuration information. This is useful to manage all information is single place which is really important to any applications. ### 11. Feels secured and compliant **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?** It meets all our security and compliance requirements It can also store binary data and OAuth credentials Pay as you go which is great Integrate with other AWS services and provide easy security auditing server-less and Easy management Customize lambda function for time-based credential rotations **What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?** as a new user, Little hard to find options in places but it could be just me **What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloud based security/credential management ### 12. The correct way to do secrets **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Richard R. | Director Of Technology, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?** I like that it's a built in aws solution to do key and secret management **What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?** Like all aws services, you need to be an aws expert to fully understand it. Also it ties you in to the aws ecosystem **What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We no longer need to hard code secrets in our code, or in our deployment server, or on the ec2 instance env. We have a centralized place to manage all of that now ### 13. Ita Wonderful product to save your secrets **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?** It is to store and rotate secrets securely. I no need to manage any infrastructure to manage secrets. its also monitor, and control access to secrets of lot of API's. Its server with Easy management **What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?** As a new user I can not use whole functions for product also its a very expensive **Recommendations to others considering AWS Secrets Manager:** Its amazing Product but Cost is very high for Start ups **What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can save our secret data in clouds ### 14. Next Level Secrets Management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?** Easy to use with top level security and features. You can encrypt your secrets and enable key rotation for each one. **What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?** Very expensive considering what you're paying for. Some bugs in the console sometimes (doesn't mess with data). **What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloud based secrets management. ### 15. Manageable Secrets **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?** The ability to audit and to have an audit trail available is a key component for any large scale business especially any business that deals with strict regulations. **What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?** Secrets managers often complain of the lack of support on a larger scale. **What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Key buisness IT issues are spread globally to help our different facilities coordinate and AWS helps control our fluctuating environment. ### 16. Had been searching for a solution for long **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?** The implicit authorization for AWS EC2 instances **What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?** The on prem integration is a bit of a hassle **What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Maintaining of secrets ### 17. Good to store the secrets key at one place. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?** It is easy with just clicks to set up your secret Ids and keys in aws. **What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?** It is needed to have json knowledge to make changes to the configuration files. **What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** With AWS secrets manager, it becomes one stop Solution and platform for putting everything on cloud and on a single platform to manage with easy collaboration within teams and various other services at AWS. ### 18. Aws secrets manager **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?** Cloud credentials store management and retrieve capabilities **What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?** We have to ensure not to log any information from secrets manager into logs **What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Credentials manager - [View AWS Secrets Manager pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-secrets-manager/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-18+14%3A41%3A38+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=f46b6f7e-1faa-4717-be47-d0693dc16db0&secure%5Btoken%5D=087a135320635f284c0822aaa5ba5c95f37b53bac6b69e1881dcbd17079c8d82&format=llm_user) ## AWS Secrets Manager Features **Administration** - Policy, User, and Role Management - Approval Workflows - Automated Provisioning - Bulk Changes - Centralized Management - Self-Service Access Requests **Functionality** - Audit trail - Cental dashboard - Universal approach **Compliance** - Access Management - At-Risk Analysis - DLP Configuration - Sensitive Data Compliance **Functionality** - Multi-Factor Authentication - Single Sign-On - BYOD support - Password Vault - Centralized management - Role-based security - Live notifications - Live session recording & playback - Hide passwords - Temporary, time-limited privilege **Administration** - Database Management - Deduplication - Backup - API / integrations **Monitoring** - Audit Logging - Activity Logging - Anomaly Detection **Security ** - Multi-Factor Authentication - Data Transport - Data Types - Security Tools **Reporting** - Audit log - Reporting ## Top AWS Secrets Manager Alternatives - [Delinea Secret Server](https://www.g2.com/products/delinea-secret-server/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (42 reviews) - [1Password](https://www.g2.com/products/1password/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,768 reviews) - [Keeper Password Manager](https://www.g2.com/products/keeper-password-manager/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,187 reviews)