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Category: AWS Secrets Manager

How to replicate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager to multiple Regions

On March 3, 2021, we launched a new feature for AWS Secrets Manager that makes it possible for you to replicate secrets across multiple AWS Regions. You can give your multi-Region applications access to replicated secrets in the required Regions and rely on Secrets Manager to keep the replicas in sync with the primary secret. […]

Use AWS Secrets Manager to simplify the management of private certificates

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with Amazon Web Services (AWS) services and your internal connected resources. For private certificates, AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority (ACM PCA) can be used to create private CA hierarchies, including root […]

How to enhance Amazon CloudFront origin security with AWS WAF and AWS Secrets Manager

Whether your web applications provide static or dynamic content, you can improve their performance, availability, and security by using Amazon CloudFront as your content delivery network (CDN). CloudFront is a web service that speeds up distribution of your web content through a worldwide network of data centers called edge locations. CloudFront ensures that end-user requests […]

Identify, arrange, and manage secrets easily using enhanced search in AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Secrets Manager now enables you to search secrets based on attributes such as secret name, description, tag keys, and tag values. With this launch, you can easily identify, arrange, and manage your secrets into logical groups that can then be used by specific applications, departments, or employees. For example, you can use the Secrets […]

How to use resource-based policies in the AWS Secrets Manager console to securely access secrets across AWS accounts

AWS Secrets Manager now enables you to create and manage your resource-based policies using the Secrets Manager console. With this launch, we are also improving your security posture by both identifying and preventing creation of resource policies that grant overly broad access to your secrets across your Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. To achieve this, […]

How to track changes to secrets stored in AWS Secrets Manager using AWS Config and AWS Config Rules

On April 20th, AWS Config announced support for AWS Secrets Manager, making it easier to track configuration changes to the secrets you manage in AWS Secrets Manager. You can now use AWS Config to track changes to secrets’ metadata — such as secret description and rotation configuration, relationship to other AWS sources such as the […]

How to use AWS Secrets Manager to securely store and rotate SSH key pairs

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. October 4, 2019: We’ve updated the estimated solution cost for accuracy. AWS Secrets Manager provides […]

How to securely provide database credentials to Lambda functions by using AWS Secrets Manager

April 29, 2022: This post has been updated based on working backwards from a customer need to securely allow access and use of Amazon RDS database credentials from a AWS Lambda function. In this blog post, we will show you how to use AWS Secrets Manager to secure your database credentials and send them to […]

How to use AWS Secrets Manager client-side caching in .NET

December 5, 2019: We removed some information about ASP .NET projects that is no longer relevant. November 14, 2019: We updated the cache library code sample. AWS Secrets Manager now has a client-side caching library for.NET that makes it easier to access secrets from .NET applications. This is in addition to client-side caching libraries for […]

Improve availability and latency of applications by using AWS Secret Manager’s Python client-side caching library

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. Note from May 10, 2019: We’ve updated a code sample for accuracy. Today, AWS Secrets […]