AWS Security Blog
Author: Apurv Awasthi
How to rotate Amazon DocumentDB and Amazon Redshift credentials in AWS Secrets Manager
November 1, 2021: AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some variations of this term. More info. Using temporary credentials is an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practice. Even Dilbert […]
How to create and retrieve secrets managed in AWS Secrets Manager using AWS CloudFormation templates
Updated November 15, 2018: We added information to make variables more clear in the sample template. AWS Secrets Manager now integrates with AWS CloudFormation so you can create and retrieve secrets securely using CloudFormation. This integration makes it easier to automate provisioning your AWS infrastructure. For example, without any code changes, you can generate unique […]
How to use AWS Secrets Manager to rotate credentials for all Amazon RDS database types, including Oracle
August 31, 2021: AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some variations of this term. More info. You can now use AWS Secrets Manager to rotate credentials for Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, […]
Delegate permission management to developers by using IAM permissions boundaries
Today, AWS released a new IAM feature that makes it easier for you to delegate permissions management to trusted employees. As your organization grows, you might want to allow trusted employees to configure and manage IAM permissions to help your organization scale permission management and move workloads to AWS faster. For example, you might want […]
How to access secrets across AWS accounts by attaching resource-based policies
October 29, 2021: AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some variations of this term. More info. You can use AWS Secrets Manager to rotate, manage, and retrieve secrets such as database […]
Rotate Amazon RDS database credentials automatically with AWS Secrets Manager
August 31, 2021: AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some variations of this term. More info. Recently, we launched AWS Secrets Manager, a service that makes it easier to rotate, manage, […]
New! Attach an AWS IAM Role to an Existing Amazon EC2 Instance by Using the AWS CLI
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles enable your applications running on Amazon EC2 to use temporary security credentials that AWS creates, distributes, and rotates automatically. Using temporary credentials is an IAM best practice because you do not need to maintain long-term keys on your instance. Using IAM roles for EC2 also eliminates the need […]