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AWS Secrets Manager

Official docs outline

10 sections
  1. Core concepts

    Secrets, versions, staging labels, rotation and encryption.

  2. Creating secrets

    Creating secrets in the console, CLI and with CloudFormation.

  3. Managing secrets

    Updating, deleting, tagging and permissions for secrets.

  4. Retrieving secrets

    Using the API, SDKs, caching and agents to fetch secrets.

  5. Rotating secrets

    Managed and Lambda-based rotation for database credentials.

  6. Multi-Region replication

    Replicating secrets across Regions.

  7. Monitoring

    CloudTrail, CloudWatch and EventBridge for secret events.

  8. Best practices

    Guidance for storing, caching and rotating secrets safely.

  9. Security

    IAM, resource policies and encryption.

  10. Quotas

    Secrets and API request limits.

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