AWS Secrets Manager
wikipedia:AWS Secrets Manager (April 2018) [1]
- 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
Contents
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, eg:
GetSecretValue - CloudWatch integration
Related terms
- Private key
- AWS Manage policy:
- 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
- AWSSecretsManagerReadWriteAccess managed policy
- AWS managed policy for AWS Secrets Manager
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
- Rotate Amazon RDS database credentials automatically with AWS Secrets Manager
See also
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