AWS Secrets Manager Reviews & Product Details

Earlier we used to store our secret variables in GitHub, like DB endpoint/password. Which was not secure, and then we started to store it in SSM parameters in Secret Manager. And during build time, we "sed" all the values from SSM parameters to the application code, which made our secret values secure & inaccessible from the outside world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing much to dislike it, but during code build, we need to give permission to AWS CloudBuild to access Secret Manager and need to write in yaml files all the values which we want to fetch, but it is all process we need to do to make things good. So not a bad thing to dislike it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Secrets Manager is a service provided by Amazon cloud platform to store, retrieve and rotate our credentials. We employ it for our database passwords, API keys, and other secrets to manage our password lifecycle. Instead of hardcoding our passwords in the code, we can easily reference our secrets which are securely stored in our Secrets Manager. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Secrets Manager gives me the convenience to hold multiple versions of my credentials through its staged labels. It also allows me to maintain access priviledges when I define my IAM policies. No dislike with anything related to its service in our AWS environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Our organization mostly used it for saving sensitive information e.g private key or rds credentials. The best feature is to rotate your credentials without any hassle. The lambda custom code feature is great for rotation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes in dev, qa environment the rotation would not happen and it required manually resetting password. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of integration and availability the secrets manager provides. All of my services within AWS can access it easily with a little IAM permission magic. Tapping into this service was simple and effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'd like to be able to store more complex objects within the secrets manager, but that may be beyond the scope of what it was intended for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing is that it keeps all my secret passwords, well, secret! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It took me a while to learn the usage but I got the hang of it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Like in every AWS service, the link with an IAM role is seamless, thus allowing you to grant exact permissions to credentials stored in Secrets Manager to a specific instance/container/etc.

It is managed quite easily and even integrates with other services, such as existing RDS instances, automatically. It allows rotating credentials a much easier task.

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I did not find any features I do not like with SM at the moment. The service is at its very early stages, and so is our usage. However, we are certain that upon further usage we might find a few hiccups here and there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The thing I like best is that we're able to rotate secrets safely without the need for code deployments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can't think of anything at this time that I would dislike. Our IT person doesn't have any issues with it either. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how easy it is to store and rotate secrets securely. I no longer have to manage any infrastructure to manage secrets. I can rotate a secret and my service can pickup the new value with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike how cumbersome retrieving secrets from the Secrets Manger is. It's not as easy as using Vault. The CLI is unintuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That my cloud deployed applications have an easy way to get secrets without us having to build a custom solution to integrate with another product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If permissions aren't configured correctly, one might expose secrets to an unauthorized AWS account user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We can store , rotate, monitor, and control access to secrets of lot of API's.This is great tool to hide lot of confidential information which is sensitive to business.Good thing is lot of API can restored with cheaper prices and we can manage all keys in one central repository. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Even though it has great features some times I feel its difficult to permission for certain factors and its difficult to estimate the cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.