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AWS Secrets Manager Overview

What is 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.

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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.


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Rahul S.
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Rahul S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Best way to store local settings of python / application properties of java securely"
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 pa...
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Secrets manager review"
Our organization mostly used it for saving sensitive information e.g private key or rds credentials. The best feature is to rotate your credentials...
Ravi C.
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Ravi C.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"External Secret Definition with AWS Secrets Manager for our Elastic Kubernetes clusters"
AWS Secrets Manager is a service provided by Amazon cloud platform to store, retrieve and rotate our credentials. We employ it for our database pas...
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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.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jeremiah K.
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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security
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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?

If permissions aren't configured correctly, one might expose secrets to an unauthorized AWS account user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Secrets Manager:

Strongly recommended product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloud based security/credential management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Richard R.
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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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Secrets Manager:

Its amazing Product but Cost is very high for Start ups Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

We can save our secret data in clouds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloud based secrets management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Medical Devices
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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?

Secrets managers often complain of the lack of support on a larger scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.