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Mike
Mike

Reputation: 103

AWS what is the difference between KMS and Secret Manager

I am trying to understand if two AWS tools are used for different things. If someone knows the different scenarios one should use KMS versus Secret Manager, please let me know. Thank you in advance and my apologize if the answer is obvious (I am still learning).

Upvotes: 8

Views: 3128

Answers (1)

Mark B
Mark B

Reputation: 200446

KMS is used to manage encryption keys. Other services integrate with KMS to provide data encryption capabilities.

Secrets Manager is used to store secrets, like passwords. Secrets Manager uses KMS to encrypt your passwords when it stores them.

Upvotes: 10

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