One of the most common questions about secrets management strategies on Amazon Web Services (AWS) is whether an organization should centralize its secrets. Though this question is often focused on whether secrets should be centrally stored, there are four aspects of centralizing the secrets management process that need to be considered: creation, storage, rotation, and monitoring. In this post, we discuss the advantages and tradeoffs of centralizing or decentralizing each of these aspects of secrets management.
Centralized creation of secrets
When deciding whether to centralize secrets creation, you should consider how you already deploy infrastructure in the cloud. Modern DevOps practices have driven some organizations toward developer portals and internal developer platforms that use golden paths for infrastructure deployment. By using tools that use golden paths, developers can deploy infrastructure in a self-service…
