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Storing passwords with Secrets Manager

Storing passwords with Secrets Manager - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Storing passwords with Secrets Manager

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- [Instructor] Before we start working with EFS, let's look at some AWS services that are used to securely manage encryption keys and secrets. There are times when you need to pass in credentials to external third party services that are not AWS services from within your code and you don't want to put those passwords or keys directly into your code where they can be stolen. In these instances, look at AWS Secrets Manager. Type Secrets Manager into the search bar. Click store a new secret. You can see here, that you can store several types of secrets such as database logins. For secret type, select other type of secret which will let us store any type of secret that we want. For the key, type mynewsecret. And for the value type awsrocks. At the bottom, click the Next button. For the secret name, type awstest/mynewsecret. At the bottom, click Next, again. And then click Next. At the bottom of the review screen, you'll see…

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