What's new at AWS 📢
✨ #AWSSecretsManager announced an open source release of Secrets Manager Agent on Jul 11, 2024.
✨ What is Secrets Manager Agent:
âž– A local HTTP service that engineer can install and use in their compute environments.
âž– Useful to read secrets from Secrets Manager and cache them in memory.
âž– It supports to simplify and standardize the way app/services read secrets across compute environments without the need for custom code.
✨ Secrets Manager Agent is an open source release that customer applications can use to retrieve secrets from a local HTTP service instead of making a network call to Secrets Manager.
✨ Customizable configuration options when adapt agent based secret manager such as time to live, cache size, maximum connections, and HTTP port.
✨ The agent also offers built-in protection against Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) to ensure security when calling the agent within your compute environment.
✨ What is AWS Secrets Manager:
âž– Its a AWS native vault service to store, retrieve, and rotate credentials for an example username and password.
âž– Such as database credentials, application credentials, OAuth tokens, API keys, and other user name & password throught their lifecycles.
âž– It eliminates the need of hard-coded credentials in application source code.
âž– Instead uses a runtime call to the Secrets Manager service to retrieve credentials dynamically when needed.
📌 Note: when leveraging AWS Managed (aws/secretsmanager) that Secrets Manager creates to encrypt our secrets for free.
📌 GitHub repo for Secrets Manager Agent open source code: https://lnkd.in/gvCdaZTT
📌 Explore more about Secrets Manager agent: https://lnkd.in/gb7W8BBK
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