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AWS Secrets Manager overview

AWS Secrets Manager overview - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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AWS Secrets Manager overview

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- [Instructor] AWS Secrets Manager is a secret management service that enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle. As a best practice, you should avoid keeping sensitive information such as database credentials or API keys in plain text, and they shouldn't be accessible or hardcoded in your code as well. It is also recommended to rotate passwords or keys on a regular basis, which can be easily overlooked when keys are maintained manually. If you are in charge of storing and managing secrets, as well as ensuring that your application complies with regulatory and compliance standards, you may use Secrets Manager to accomplish all of these duties from one central location. As a developer, Secrets Manager can assist you in protecting and rotating application credentials without too much overhead on your side. Instead of storing your database connection details in the application hosts, you can save it in…

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