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AWS Secrets Manager

Security, Identity, & Compliance

Rotate, manage, and retrieve secrets

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Production use

Store and rotate database credentials, API keys, and app secrets.

Before production

  • Use automatic rotation where possible
  • tight IAM
  • KMS encryption
  • no plaintext env files
  • alert on access anomalies.