This lab provides a hands-on introduction to AWS Secrets Manager, a service that helps you protect sensitive information such as database credentials and API keys in your AWS environment. Instead of storing sensitive information in configuration files or source code, AWS Secrets Manager provides a secure way to store and access this information.
Objectives
- Create an AWS Secrets Manager secret to store and protect sensitive information.
- View and retrieve the secrets values to connect to a database.
- Modify secret to generate new secret values.
- Review AWS Secrets Manager details through the AWS Management Console.
Technical knowledge prerequisites
Technical knowledge prerequisites
Outline
Task 1: Create a Secret for Database Credentials
Task 2: Review the Stored Secret
Task 3: Test Database Connectivity
Task 4: Rotate Secrets with AWS Secrets Manager