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AWS Secrets Manager vs SolarWinds Passportal comparison

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Secrets Manager
Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers
3rd
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Secrets Management Tools (3rd)
SolarWinds Passportal
Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers
27th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Enterprise Password Managers category, the mindshare of AWS Secrets Manager is 12.6%, down from 16.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Passportal is 1.1%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Password Managers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AWS Secrets Manager12.6%
SolarWinds Passportal1.1%
Other86.3%
Enterprise Password Managers
 

Featured Reviews

Mahadev Metre - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Engineer at Paydoh
Consistent security and efficiency improvements optimize IT infrastructure with effective management
When creating AWS Secrets Manager, it should be automated using tools such as Terraform, Puppet, or Ansible. With Terraform code, you specify the encryption key, secret name, rotation policy, and secret replication. Human error occurs when feeding secret values manually, especially with large amounts of secrets to input. Secrets should never be protected only by IAM. They should be protected by multiple layers, such as IAM and one or two KMS keys. Additional security measures could be beneficial if necessary. The rotation policy is crucial because some secrets may become obsolete, require updates, or get compromised. With a weekly rotation policy, if unauthorized access occurs, the exposure is limited to seven days. The rotation policy can be customized according to needs.
it_user1719516 - PeerSpot reviewer
Remote Network Support Analyst Level 2 at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
With its extension, I can quickly access login information without opening a new browser window
Passportal's stability is okay. However, it goes down a little too often for me to recommend it to somebody else. I can only remember one or two outages with IT Glue. With Passportal, it gets frustrating when you need to reset a password for a client, and you have to put their global admin address in there because what you're doing requires admin privileges. But you can't get in there because Passportal isn't working, and the password might be a 48-character password. If it's down for five minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes — that's too long. It's a real inconvenience. It doesn't happen all the time, but I've been at this job two months, and it's probably happened three or four times. I don't like this. I'm used to having it right at my fingertips. I need access now. With the influx of tickets coming in and time management, it needs to be like that.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution is very scalable."
"The product is easy to use and is inexpensive."
"The most valuable feature is the management of credentials."
"The most valuable feature is usability, as it is quite user-friendly."
"It's highly scalable, so I'd rate it a ten out of ten."
"AWS Secrets Manager plays a significant role in optimizing IT infrastructure security and efficiency."
"The most valuable feature is security."
"I would highly recommend AWS Secrets Manager for secret management in AWS."
"I like Passportal's extensions; you can click the particular company you want and go through all the passwords and usernames associated with that company or the specific webpage you're on or their server or whatever, which is a whole lot faster because I don't have to open up a new browser or use my bookmark or anything like that."
"Passportal has the advantage of also being a document management system."
"Passportal is very stable."
 

Cons

"AWS Secrets Manager could support hybrid infrastructure."
"We contacted AWS support and waited approximately an hour for assistance."
"The solution's initial setup process is complicated."
"There is a need for better environmental implementation, such as having a security fund as a solution."
"We occasionally have problems with rate limits, although that is a problem more generally with AWS."
"If you add one more layer of security to AWS Secrets Manager, even the programmer will not be able to see the secrets."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in terms of integrating with certain other platforms."
"In the future, I would like the ability to have diagrams, such as those created by Visio, available directly in Passportal."
"Passportal's stability is okay. However, it goes down a little too often for me to recommend it to somebody else."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We've observed that AWS Secrets Manager pricing is based on a per-secret-per-month model. As a result, we prefer to divide our secrets into individual pieces to increase security and grant specific access permissions to certain secrets, systems, or individuals. However, this approach results in higher costs. Therefore, we have been exploring ways to combine our secrets into groups to reduce expenses and simplify management. Nonetheless, we acknowledge that this issue may not be related to the secret manager's functionality."
"I don't believe there is a license cost for the solution."
"The cost is somewhat high."
"We purchase a monthly license for the product."
"The solution is expensive."
"We pay the license fee monthly and the price is reasonable."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
12%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
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Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with AWS Secrets Manager?
AWS Secrets Manager could not be better because there has been no frustration with the product.
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