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AWS Secrets Manager

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What is AWS Secrets Manager?

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

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AWS Secrets Manager Ratings

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90 Likeliness to Recommend

95 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

83 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 87

Privileged Password Management

Access Control

Password Vaulting

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Compliance Reporting

Forensic Investigation Capability

Privileged Account Life Cycle Management

Privileged Account Discovery

Service Account Governance (SAG)

PAM as a Service Option (PAMaaS)

Audit, Reporting & Compliance

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 84

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Quality of Features

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Ease of Implementation

AWS Secrets Manager Reviews

Carlos Orlando C.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Finance
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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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

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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

Tarun B.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Retail
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

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Submitted Oct 2023

Easy to use, but a bit pricey

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS Secrets Manager from other similar products?

Awesome SDK and API support Integrated with CICD Pipelines to set get the secrets while deployment , its very easy and smooth to use Very Good documentation, Easy to implement

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Automates secrets rotation

What do you dislike most about this product?

Not as such , Its best

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Start though the tutorials from documentation as its very easy to implement

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Inspires Innovation
Fair

AWS Secrets Manager

What is AWS Secrets Manager?

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AWS Secrets Manager Ratings

90 Likeliness to Recommend

95 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+87 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love AWS Secrets Manager?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Privileged Password Management Allow the organization to automate and control the whole process of giving access and passwords to privileged accounts.

Access Control Can provide fine-grained control to end user permission assignment. Supports RBAC, web password filler or other password hiding techniques.

Password Vaulting Regulatory compliance, good security posture, and best practice prevent privileged users from knowing the passwords to critical systems and resources.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Supports multi-factor device and app authentication for Administrators.

Compliance Reporting By design auditing reporting metrics data feature by industries/compliance e.g. SOC2, SOX, PCI DSS 3.2, HIPAA, NERC CIP, ISO 27001, etc.

Forensic Investigation Capability PAM solution is able to give a 360° view of when the privileged account password was checked out and by whom, including all the actions that were taken.

Privileged Account Life Cycle Management Ability to manage the life cycle of privileged accounts IE. Provisioning/De-provisioning of Privileged Access, session management, etc.

Privileged Account Discovery Can discover roles for local and distributed accounts for on-prem or cloud environments.

Service Account Governance (SAG) PAM tool can manage service accounts effectively.

PAM as a Service Option (PAMaaS) PAM is offered as a managed service.

Audit, Reporting & Compliance IT and Administrators will have the ability to record/report on the actions of any user while they access your password-protected servers in real time.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

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Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

AWS Secrets Manager Reviews

Carlos Orlando C.

Feature compete and reliable

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Namrata Y.

Features of AWS Secret Manager is amazing

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Tarun B.

Easy to use, but a bit pricey

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Privileged Password Management

Access Control

Password Vaulting

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Compliance Reporting

Forensic Investigation Capability

Privileged Account Life Cycle Management

Privileged Account Discovery

Service Account Governance (SAG)

PAM as a Service Option (PAMaaS)

Audit, Reporting & Compliance

Vendor Capability Ratings

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Quality of Features

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Ease of Implementation