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How to rotate a WordPress MySQL database secret using AWS Secrets Manager in Amazon EKS

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 […]

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, […]

How to connect to AWS Secrets Manager service within a Virtual Private Cloud

You can now use AWS Secrets Manager with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints powered by AWS Privatelink and keep traffic between your VPC and Secrets Manager within the AWS network. AWS Secrets Manager is a secrets management service that helps you protect access to your applications, services, and IT resources. This service enables […]

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, […]