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Drew M.

Software engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/30/2019

"The secrets manager made it easy to store and retrieve secrets, passwords, and other sensitive keys"

4/5

What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?

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.

What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?

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.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Secrets Manager:

There are other options out there such as Consul from Hashicorp, but you'll have to setup and maintain the infrastructure yourself. This service is out of the box and easy to maintain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed a distributed, simple mechanism for storing authentication keys with the various services we have that need to communicate in a secure manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Secrets Manager Reviews & Product Details

AWS Secrets Manager helps you protect secrets needed to access your applications, services, and IT resources. The service enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle.

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AWS Secrets Manager Reviews (17)

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Rahul S.

Devops engineer

Construction

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/15/2023

"Best way to store local settings of python / application properties of java securely"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?

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.

What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?

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.

Ravi C.

Cloud Engineer

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/30/2022

"External Secret Definition with AWS Secrets Manager for our Elastic Kubernetes clusters"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?

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.

What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?

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.

What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

We establish the external secrets of our EKS clusters using AWS Secrets Manager. Secrets Manager's configuration is convenient thanks to our AWS CLI environment, which has plenty of programmatic capabilities. Backend password configurations are compatible, and it allows external secrets to be stored in our Secrets Manager. We can also give strict access privilege definitions while working with production environments to enhance credential security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/19/2022

"Secrets manager review"

4/5

What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?

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.

What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?

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

Recommendations to others considering AWS Secrets Manager:

If anyone is worried about their secured resource then aws is the way to go. It will automate your credentials renewal every specific time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Connecting to rds without taking care of changing rds password or keeping api keys secret and accessig through lambda Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jeff W.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/26/2020

"AWS Secrets Manager really works"

4.5/5

What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?

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

What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?

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

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/10/2018

"Great alternative for Vault in the cloud"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?

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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What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?

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.

What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used to spin up different Jenkins slaves (built via different Dockerfiles) for various jobs.

Each of these containers only differed by the Amazon credentials they stored.

Now, we are spinning up a single slave - and it grabs the correct credentials from the SM service using the appropriate IAM permission role (attached via CloudFormation).

We are also close to integrate it with some of our other applications, especially those utilizing RDS for hosting MySQL DBs, so in the future we can rotate credentials without having to change code/app version to support that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jeremiah K.

Senior Project Manager

Legal Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/30/2019

"Managing Secrets Never Easier"

4/5

What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?

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.

What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?

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.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/28/2019

"A great service if you are already in the AWS ecosystem"

3.5/5

What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?

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.

What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?

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.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Secrets Manager:

Evaluate your needs and see if it can do the job. If you aren't all in on AWS then it might not be for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed to store some secrets for our other services to pull from. It's really easy to setup authorizations if you are already using IAM roles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Restaurants

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/28/2019

"Convenient and secure place to store secrets"

4.5/5

What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?

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.

What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?

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

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/28/2019

"Good Managing tool with lot of features"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Secrets Manager?

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.

What do you dislike about AWS Secrets Manager?

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.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Secrets Manager:

Strongly recommended product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Secrets Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using this, we have stored some keys used for APP and related configuration information. This is useful to manage all information is single place which is really important to any applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.