Secrets Manager¶

For storing secrets only
Ability to force rotation of secrets every n days (not available in Parameter Store)
A secret consists of multiple key-value pairs
Secrets are encrypted using KMS
Mostly used for RDS authentication
- need to specify the username and password to access the database
- link the secret to the database to allow for automatic rotation of database login info
Can create custom secrets

Last updated: 2022-05-20