What Is AWS Secret Manager?
AWS Secret Manager is an AWS service that stores secrets such as passwords, login credentials, third-party keys, and other similar confidential information. It saves and manages credentials. It enables us to modify or rotate our credentials effortlessly, eliminating any code or configuration changes.
- There is no need for hard-code credentials in our code or configuration files, we can use Secrets Manager to store them.
- It enables you to retrieve secrets programmatically by replacing hard-coded credentials in our code with an API called Secrets Manager.
- It uses the AWS Key Management System to encrypt the protected text of a secret.
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.