AWS Secrets Manager helps you manage, retrieve, and rotate database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycles.

1. Presented By: Mohit Saxena
AWS SecretsManager

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3. Our Agenda
01
04:15 PM Overview
02
04:20 PM Uses
03
04:25 PM Features
04
04:30 PM Encryption
05
04:40 PM Rotation Demo

4. AWS SecretsManager
Overview
AWS SecretsManager enables customers to rotate, manage, and retrive database credentials, API keys,
and other secrets throughout their lifecycle.
● IT Admins: Store and manage access to secrets securely and at scale.
● Security Admins: Audit and monitor the use of secrets, and rotate secrets without a risk of breaking
applications
● Developers: Avoid dealing with secrets in their applications.

5. What Do We Want To Do?

6. Features
Easy to use:
● Built-in integrations for rotating MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Amazon Aurora on RDS.
● Entensible with Lambda.
● Use versioning so that applications don't break with secrets are rotated.
Fine-grained access control:
● IAM policies.

7. Features
Secure/Audit/Monitor:
● Encrypted by default using encryption keys owned by the customer.
● Integrated with CloudTrail, and CloudWatch. E.g., Send an SNS notification when an administrator
deleted a secret.
Pay as you go:
● No annual license or up front cost.
● $0.40 per secret per month (pro-rated based on the number of hours).
● $0.05 per 10,000 API calls.

8. Encryption
All secrets protected at-rest and in-transit.
At-rest:
● Secrets encrypted at rest using AWS Key Management Service (KMS).
● Choose your desired Customer Master Key (CMK) or AWS managed default encryption key.
In-transit:
● Secrets encrypted in transit using Transport Layer Security (TLS).
● All API calls authenticated by SigV4 verification.

9. How AWS Handles The Rotation?
AWS does it in 4 stages and in order:
1. createSecret
2. setSecret
3. testSecret
4. finishSecret

10. How AWS Handles The Rotation?
AWS does it in 4 steps and in order:
1. createSecret
2. setSecret
3. testSecret
4. finishSecret
{
"SecretId": "arn:aws:secretsmanager...secret:prod/foo-C8F3BL",
"ClientRequestToken": "bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb",
"Step": "createSecret"
}

11. How AWS Handles The Rotation?
Labels:
1. AWSCURRENT
2. AWSPREVIOUS
3. AWSPENDING

12. How AWS Handles The Rotation?

13. How AWS Handles The Rotation?

14. How AWS Handles The Rotation?

15. How AWS Handles The Rotation?

16. Demo

17. Thank You !
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