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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

82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Since last award

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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

Access Control

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Password Vaulting

Privileged Account Discovery

Forensic Investigation Capability

Audit, Reporting & Compliance

PAM as a Service Option (PAMaaS)

Compliance Reporting

Privileged Account Life Cycle Management

Privileged Session Monitoring and Control

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Vendor Support

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Ease of Data Integration

AWS Secrets Manager Reviews

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

Ashwini k.

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

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Submitted Oct 2023

Awesome Product

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS Secrets Manager from other similar products?

Its best tool available in market Lots of features to seal the secrets , ip restriction , Access management Better SDK and API support Really useful when integrated with Kubernetes

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Privileged Access management and IP level restriction

What do you dislike most about this product?

Best tool nothing bad in product

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Just simply use it , one of the best product to seal the secrets

Pros

Reliable
Inspires Innovation
Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing

José V. D.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Transportation
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Oct 2023

Really easy to use and important, but pricey!

Likeliness to Recommend

4 /10

What differentiates AWS Secrets Manager from other similar products?

Integrated with other AWS services.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Really easy to use

What do you dislike most about this product?

Price is too high

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Created a cheaper option

Pros

Saves Time
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable

Cons

Vendor's Interest First
Less Generous
Under Delivered

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

82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 Session Monitoring and Control Security and IT governance teams can quickly show their full compliance with regulations for SOC2, SOX, PCI DSS 3.2, HIPAA, NERC CIP, ISO 27001.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

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

AWS Secrets Manager Reviews

Tarun B.

Easy to use, but a bit pricey

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ashwini k.

Awesome Product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

José V. D.

Really easy to use and important, but pricey!

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Privileged Password Management

Access Control

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Password Vaulting

Privileged Account Discovery

Forensic Investigation Capability

Audit, Reporting & Compliance

PAM as a Service Option (PAMaaS)

Compliance Reporting

Privileged Account Life Cycle Management

Privileged Session Monitoring and Control

Vendor Capability Ratings

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Vendor Support

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Ease of Data Integration