AWS Secrets Manager Reviews

The primary use case of the solution is to manage credentials and access.

The most valuable feature is the management of credentials.

The sidecar feature has room for improvement.

I have been using the solution for one year.

The solution is stable. I give the stability a seven out of ten.

The enterprise technical support of AWS is good.

I previously used HashiCorp Vault and switched to AWS Secrets Manager because it included a system manager.

There is no setup because the solution is out of the box.

I don't believe there is a license cost for the solution.

I give the solution an eight out of ten.

AWS Secrets Manager is the most basic and stable secret manager. I recommend the solution to others.

It is primarily being used by our application for most of its application secrets.

All our workloads are running on AWS, so integration with our workload is much easier on AWS Secrets Manager than going with another solution such as Thycotic.

The API interface provided by AWS Secrets Manager is much easier. AWS provides you a good set of APIs that you can interact with using Python, Java, etc. Access control is also completely possible on AWS.

It is an intuitive product. It is working well for our use case. We haven't seen any scenario where we are not able to use it.

If you don't have enterprise support, then you will not be able to get through to them to get the help. It is not only applicable to AWS Secrets Manager. It is also applicable to any service on AWS.

I haven't heard of anything from my operations team with regards to any errors or any issues detected on AWS Secrets Manager. The access has been smooth. We have a lot of API integrations with AWS Secrets Manager. We haven't heard of any specific errors.

It is an AWS-managed service. All AWS services that are managed by AWS come with their own scalability options. They are scalable by default. We have never faced any scalability issues. That could be because the number of requests that we are sending to AWS Secrets Manager may not have actually reached the max limit. 

We have five or six applications that are integrated with it within six months.

We have an enterprise account with AWS. They are good not only with AWS Secrets Manager but also with other products. We do get good support because we have an enterprise account. If you do not have an enterprise account, they do not provide you the support that you need. They push you to come to the enterprise account.

The setup is straightforward on AWS Secrets Manager. It is a managed service. They manage it, and we don't deploy it anywhere. It is not the kind of solution that we deploy. We just provision it and use it.

If your workloads are running on AWS and you want a quick and easy integration with a solution to manage your secrets, AWS Secrets Manager can do the job. If you're not hosting your application on AWS or you're trying to do something on-prem, AWS will still be able to solve most of your issues, depending on the use case. It certainly cannot act as a PAM solution.

I would rate AWS Secrets Manager a 10 out of 10. Everything is good, and I have not had any issues with it. It is a part of the overall workload. It is just a piece of interface for us to save the secrets.

Using this product, we allow our users to store certain secrets. It will store them and allow users to access them when they want.

At this point, our needs are pretty limited and we don't use the product very heavily. It has been okay for our very specific purpose.

The most valuable feature is the ability to store key-value pairs.

The API is fine and works well.

We occasionally have problems with rate limits, although that is a problem more generally with AWS.

We have been using AWS Secrets Manager for the past few months.

Specific to AWS Secrets Manager, we do not have any issues with stability. However, sometimes we hit problems with things like rate limits.

As our platform is new and we are still growing, we haven't yet tested scalability. We have not had a heavy load on the system so it's difficult to comment on how well it scales.

We have multiple deployments in different accounts, where each one is a different instance. Each instance could contain between 30 and 50 users.

I expect that as more people start using our platform, our need for this product will increase. However, that's probably between six months and one year from now.

We have reached out to Amazon for support in the past, although not specifically for this product. In general, we are quite satisfied with their support.

The initial setup was okay and it doesn't take long.

Limited resources are required for deployment and maintenance.

We did not evaluate other options for this particular requirement because most of our work is one AWS, so it was a natural choice.

We do not make much use of the interface. Rather, we use the programmatic interface.

In summary, this is a good product and well suits our needs. There are no missing options that are blocking our use case as of now.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

The most valuable feature is usability, as it is quite user-friendly.

It would be good if the AWS Secrets Manager were more customizable.

I have been working with AWS Secrets Manager for about two and a half years.

This is a stable product.

I have not tested the scalability. I have about forty people on my team who are administrators and developers.

We have a dedicated TAM in case we have any queries and we are in touch with them on a weekly basis. We work with AWS very closely and there are no issues in terms of support.

We did not use another similar solution prior to this one.

There was nothing complex about the installation.

The vendor assisted us with the installation. The setup was completed within a day.

I have been using AWS for the past 10 years and am quite comfortable working in that environment. The Secrets Manager is just one of the AWS products that I use regularly.

Overall, this is a good product, we are satisfied with the support, and I recommend it.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.