Improving Security with AWS Secrets Manager
Managing credentials information, API keys, and other kinds of secret data has always been a challenge. AWS Secrets Manager is designed to help you securely manage, retrieve, and rotate your database and application credentials, API keys, and other secret data.
AWS Secrets Manager enables you to dynamically access secrets when needed by making API calls and only if you have been granted the right set of permissions and authorization levels. Secrets Manager can thus be used to improve your application security posture as you no longer need to hardcode credential data in your application code.
The following are the key features of AWS Secrets Manager:
- Secret – This consists of the secret information, including a value and metadata. Secret values can either be strings or binary. You can also use JSON text strings and key/value pairs as secrets. The secret metadata includes the secret’s name, which needs to be unique...
