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AWS Secrets Manager

8.2 /10
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AWS Secrets Manager
8.2 /10

What is AWS Secrets Manager?

Easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets through their lifecycle

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Awards & Recognition

AWS Secrets Manager won the following awards in the Privileged Access Management category

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AWS Secrets Manager Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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90 Likeliness to Recommend

95 Plan to Renew

82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

+87 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love AWS Secrets Manager?

0% Negative
5% Neutral
95% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
  • Unique Features

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Privileged Password Management

90

Access Control

88

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

87

Password Vaulting

86

Privileged Account Discovery

84

PAM as a Service Option (PAMaaS)

84

Audit, Reporting & Compliance

84

Forensic Investigation Capability

84

Compliance Reporting

84

Privileged Account Life Cycle Management

83

Privileged Session Monitoring and Control

83

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Availability and Quality of Training

86

Usability and Intuitiveness

85

Ease of Implementation

85

Quality of Features

85

Vendor Support

84

Business Value Created

83

Breadth of Features

83

Ease of IT Administration

82

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

82

Ease of Customization

81

Ease of Data Integration

79

AWS Secrets Manager Reviews

Monika C.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

Simplified method for managing secrets.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates AWS Secrets Manager from other similar products?

One notable feature of AWS Secrets Manager is its smooth integration with other AWS services. It makes it simpler to handle and automatically rotate secrets used by services like RDS, Redshift, and Lambda by providing native support for these services. It differs from other solutions of a similar nature due to its strong access control features, which include fine-grained permissions via IAM policies.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The simplicity and usability of AWS Secrets Manager are my favorite features. The administrative cost usually associated with secret administration is minimized by the simple API and console interface, which make rotating and managing secrets a snap.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The pricing plan is one area that needs work. Although the pay-as-you-go concept is adaptable, customers with a lot of secrets or frequent rotations may find it expensive. It would be advantageous to provide more affordable solutions, particularly for high volume consumption.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would advise carefully assessing how well AWS Secrets Manager fits your present secret management requirements. Think about things like scaling, security needs, and integration with current AWS services. Use the trial and free tier alternatives as well to make sure the product is appropriate for your particular use cases before committing to it completely.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy

Carlos Orlando C.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Finance
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2023

Feature compete and reliable

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS Secrets Manager from other similar products?

The wide range of features it comes with

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

How it integrates with other aws service, specially data related

What do you dislike most about this product?

No integration with github workflows

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Consider parameters store first

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Namrata Y.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

Features of AWS Secret Manager is amazing

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates AWS Secrets Manager from other similar products?

AWS Secret Manager is easy to understand where we create a Symmetric Keys and Asymmetric Keys easy to synchronic with any cloud operations easy to integrate with Lambda Functions and provide the RSA, DSA support format also.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

When we do any file with Asymmetric Keys two keys are generating it was very powerful and reliable method which only provide by AWS. It was a strong method of AWS.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing was dislike and it was integrating with any CI operations it was very much powerful in terms of security.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Yes i highly recommended if you don't want to expose privately your work is done with this powerful product

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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