


Users and applications retrieve secrets with a call to Secrets Manager APIs, eliminating the need to hard code sensitive information in plain text.

Secrets Manager enables us to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle. Secrets are also needed to be rotated in certain time intervals.ĪWS Secrets Manager helps us to easily manage and rotate credentials from a central place. Now days almost all the enterprise applications have strict constraints on not allowing storing any secrets in plain text. Managing the application secrets like database credentials, API keys is always a very critical aspect of application security. In this post i will show you how to access RDS credentials from AWS Secrets Manager. The Previous article was about using AWS RDS with Spring Boot & RDS read replicas with Spring Boot.
