
What is AWS Secrets Manager?
Secrets Manager helps you manage access to your applications, services, and IT resources. Easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets through their lifecycle
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
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96 Plan to Renew
82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+90 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
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Privileged Password Management
Access Control
Password Vaulting
Audit, Reporting & Compliance
Privileged Account Discovery
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AWS Secrets Manager Reviews

Abhishek M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Sep 2024
amazing product for secrets and endpoints
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Secrets Manager from other similar products?
working with SDK, CLI and CDK
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
stores all the credentials securely
What do you dislike most about this product?
customisations using IAM policies
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
good product, store all the endpoints
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity

Monika C.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2024
Simplified method for managing secrets.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Secrets Manager from other similar products?
One notable feature of AWS Secrets Manager is its smooth integration with other AWS services. It makes it simpler to handle and automatically rotate secrets used by services like RDS, Redshift, and Lambda by providing native support for these services. It differs from other solutions of a similar nature due to its strong access control features, which include fine-grained permissions via IAM policies.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The simplicity and usability of AWS Secrets Manager are my favorite features. The administrative cost usually associated with secret administration is minimized by the simple API and console interface, which make rotating and managing secrets a snap.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The pricing plan is one area that needs work. Although the pay-as-you-go concept is adaptable, customers with a lot of secrets or frequent rotations may find it expensive. It would be advantageous to provide more affordable solutions, particularly for high volume consumption.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would advise carefully assessing how well AWS Secrets Manager fits your present secret management requirements. Think about things like scaling, security needs, and integration with current AWS services. Use the trial and free tier alternatives as well to make sure the product is appropriate for your particular use cases before committing to it completely.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy

Carlos Orlando C.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Dec 2023
Feature compete and reliable
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Secrets Manager from other similar products?
The wide range of features it comes with
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
How it integrates with other aws service, specially data related
What do you dislike most about this product?
No integration with github workflows
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Consider parameters store first
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity