AWS Secrets Manager

wikipedia:AWS Secrets Manager (April 2018)

• Homepage: https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/
• Free tier: 30 days

Secrets rotation featured:

• Amazon Aurora on Amazon RDS
• MySQL on Amazon RDS
• PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS
• Oracle on Amazon RDS
• MariaDB on Amazon RDS
• Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon RDS

Secret Types

• AWS credentials: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Encryption keys: KMS
• SSH keys
• Private keys and certificates

Automatic Rotation

• Granular control: Define custom rotation schedules (e.g., daily, weekly).
• Integration with AWS Lambda: Automate tasks during rotation, such as notifying admins or updating dependent systems.

Fine-grained Access Control

• IAM policies: Define granular permissions for different users and applications(e.g., view only vs. read/write).
• Secret versions: Maintain a history of past versions.

Audit and Monitor Secrets Usage

• Integration with AWS CloudTrail: Logs API calls to Secrets Manager.
• CloudWatch integration

Related terms

• Private key
• AWS Manage policy:
  • SecretsManagerReadWrite
  • secretsmanager:GetSecretValue
• AWS Config
• AWS CloudFormation
• AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store (Dec 2016)
• AWS Fargate
• Terraform resource: aws_secretsmanager_secret
• Terraform resource: aws_secretsmanager_secret_version
• Terraform secretsmanager
• secrets =
• AWS Lambda

Activities

• Read https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/faqs/
• Read Fargate with Secret Manager https://awscloudsecvirtualevent.com/workshops/module4/fargate/
• Move hardcoded secrets to AWS Secrets Manager
• Move hardcoded database credentials to AWS Secrets Manager
• Set up alternating users rotation for AWS Secrets Manager
• Set up single user rotation for AWS Secrets Manager
• Create an AWS Secrets Manager secret with AWS CloudFormation

See also

• AWS Secrets Manager: aws secretsmanager [ create-secret | list-secrets | get-secret-value | get-random-password ], arn:aws:secretmanager
• Secrets: Kubernetes secrets, ansible-vault, Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Google Secret Manager, git-crypt, SOPS: Secrets OPerationS, Google Cloud Secret Manager, GitHub secret scanning alerts

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/introducing-aws-secrets-manager/