Understanding the Integration Between KMS and Secrets Manager on AWS

Key Management Service (KMS), and Secrets Manager are easy to mix, not only because of the similarity in names but also because one might get confused over the purpose of each one. At a high level, KMS is a service that allows users to manage cryptographic keys for encryption, decryption, signing, and additional operations. We recommend that you read our technical blog on KMS to dive more deeply into the service and its features. Secrets Manager lets you store secrets – such as passwords and API keys, to avoid hard coding them in your applications. To better protect secrets, AWS Secrets Manager uses KMS to encrypt their content. In this post, we will cover the integration between the two services to better understand how they work.  

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