AWS — Secrets Manager Overview
Introduction to AWS Secrets Manager — What is AWS Secrets Manager?
TL;DR
AWS Secret Manager enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle.
It is one central location to keep all credentials secure. It helps you protect access to your applications, services, and IT resources. There is no need to update the application code.
Features of Secrets Manager
Rotate secrets safely
AWS Secrets Manager helps you meet your security and compliance requirements by enabling you to rotate secrets safely without the need for code deployments.
For example, Secrets Manager offers built-in integration for Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon DocumentDB and rotates these database credentials on your behalf automatically.
You can customize Lambda functions to extend Secrets Manager rotation to other secret types, such as API keys, OAuth tokens and other credentials. Retrieving the secret from Secrets Manager ensures that developers and applications are using the latest version of your secrets. You can rotate secrets on a schedule or on demand by using the Secrets Manager console, AWS SDK, or AWS CLI.
