Although AWS Secrets Manager excels at managing the lifecycle of Amazon Web Services (AWS) secrets, managing credentials from third-party software providers presents unique challenges for organizations as they scale usage of their cloud applications. Organizations using multiple third-party services frequently develop different security approaches for each provider’s credentials because there hasn’t been a standardized way to manage them. When storing these third-party credentials in Secrets Manager, organizations frequently maintain additional metadata within secret values to facilitate service connections. This approach requires updating entire secret values when metadata changes and implementing provider-specific secret rotation processes that are manual and time consuming. Organizations looking to automate secret rotation typically develop custom functions tailored to each third-party software provider, requiring specialized knowledge of both third-party and AWS…
AWS Secrets Manager launches Managed External Secrets for Third-Party Credentials | Amazon Web Services
