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