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AWS Secrets Manager - The Default Choice

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have most of our infra on AWS, so naturally, AWS Secrets Manager plays a key role in managing the secrets.

Be it DB connection string, url, username, password, etc. all the little pieces that allow a service to connect to other services to do meaningful things, we store everything in AWS Secrets Manager.

Pros

  • Single source of truth for secrets
  • Securely share secrets with colleagues
  • Securely store secrets for services to access during runtime

Cons

  • The whole secret vs key-value naming could be confusing for beginner
  • The lack of history is quite inconvenient

Likelihood to Recommend

If you need a secret manager, where you can store key-value pairs of secrets for the whole team & the services to retrieve then AWS Secrets Manager is a good choice, especially when your infra is already on AWS.

With a proper setup, AWS Secrets Manager can be seamlessly integrated into your infra.
VU
Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering (501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
AWS Secrets Manager
3 years of experience

Great tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

[AWS Secrets Manager] is used for storing and managing who can access and use the secrets variables along with the project. The entire organization uses it. It solves the part that with a simple command before running the project all users (depending on their roles) can get the secrets in reading mode.

Pros

  • One trust source for all secrets
  • You can divide them per environment
  • You can give different access to users

Cons

  • It could be good if a user can use a variable in the project but can't see them in the manager on AWS

Likelihood to Recommend

[AWS Secrets Manager] is really good at managing the secrets for each environment (stage, production, ...), and with a simple command, the users will get all the variables for running the project. Depending on the user role, they could just read and/or edit the variables on the Secrets Manager on AWS. This facilitates the management of the secrets.
MJ
Manuela Jacqueline Mercado Rodríguez
Full Stack Software Engineer in Engineering at Intellisys D. Corp. (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
AWS Secrets Manager
2 years of experience
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