Manage access with fine-grained policies ( you can create a policy that enables developers to retrieve secrets values ). Rotate secrets safely ( you can keep expiry and rotate values whenever needed ). Client side you need to integrate with STS token to give temporary AWS credentials value which can only restrict for secret manager service. For server side code AWS credential is able to manage and get secrets values from secrets manager. Here the secret manager plays the role of lifesaver in both cases. It is just static code in a static file if we keep secret values it is not safe. But we can lose those values if we don't keep them in code and another side of the mirror is not recommended to keep those values in code or repository which can be directly exposed to developers in the production environment.Īnother case is client side application. Because there is different server and where you can use create a environment specific values easily. Sometimes it's easy to manage environment specific secret values in server side code. 
In technical word AWS secrets manager manages those API keys, secrets key or client key or token or DB credentials etc. Let me first explain about AWS secrets manager :ĪWS secrets manager is nothing but a locker where you can keep all secret values like important papers, jewellery ( all important secret things which you don't want to expose as publicly) and you will only have the key to access those.
This blog can be helpful for general Javascript projects also.
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I am going to explain how to use the AWS secrets manager in AWS Lambda under Node JS container.
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