Aws Secret Manager

Question 1

What are the Options for secret management

Answer 1

Systems Manager
Secret Manager
Hashi corp vault

Question 2

when should we use system manager and Secret manager

Answer 2

Using system manager is easy. Create a service account and attach i am Role and fetch the information. Use this for less sensitive information like username URl etc.Use Secret manager for very sensitive information and where the certificates or passwords be rotated . Secret manager is costly.

Question 3

When should we go for Hashi corp vault

Answer 3

For working with hybrid clouds. This is also opensource and community driven and existing in the industry from long time.