Tag: 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Update on April 26, 2019: We’ve adjusted a sentence to clarify that the scope of this post does not include automatic password rotation. In my previous post, I showed you how you can increase the durability of your applications and prepare for disaster recovery by using AWS Secrets Manager to replicate your secrets across AWS […]

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. March 4, 2021: AWS Secrets Manager has launched a new feature to help you easily […]

At AWS, we offer features that make it easier for you to follow the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practice of using short-term credentials. For example, you can use an IAM role that rotates and distributes short-term AWS credentials to your applications automatically. Similarly, you can configure AWS Secrets Manager to rotate a […]

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 […]

AWS Secrets Manager recently announced a feature update to rotate credentials for all Amazon RDS database types. This allows you to automatically rotate credentials for all types of databases hosted on Amazon RDS. In this post, I show you how to rotate database secrets for a non-RDS database using AWS Secrets Manager. I use a […]

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, […]