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AWS Secrets Manager vs Vault: What are the differences?

Developers describe AWS Secrets Manager as "Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials Securely". AWS Secrets Manager helps you protect secrets needed to access your applications, services, and IT resources. The service enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle. On the other hand, Vault is detailed as "Secure, store, and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets in modern computing". Vault is a tool for securely accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords, certificates, and more. Vault provides a unified interface to any secret, while providing tight access control and recording a detailed audit log.

AWS Secrets Manager and Vault belong to "Secrets Management" category of the tech stack.

Vault is an open source tool with 12.8K GitHub stars and 1.93K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Vault's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of AWS Secrets Manager
Pros of Vault
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    Managed Service
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    Secure
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    Variety of Secret Backends
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    Very easy to set up and use
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    Dynamic secret generation
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    AuditLog
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    Leasing and Renewal
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    Privilege Access Management
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    Variety of Auth Backends
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    Easy to integrate with
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    Open Source
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    Consol integration
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    Handles secret sprawl
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    Multicloud

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What is AWS Secrets Manager?

AWS Secrets Manager helps you protect secrets needed to access your applications, services, and IT resources. The service enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle.

What is Vault?

Vault is a tool for securely accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords, certificates, and more. Vault provides a unified interface to any secret, while providing tight access control and recording a detailed audit log.

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What are some alternatives to AWS Secrets Manager and Vault?
AWS Key Management Service
AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data, and uses Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) to protect the security of your keys. AWS Key Management Service is integrated with other AWS services including Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, and Amazon Redshift. AWS Key Management Service is also integrated with AWS CloudTrail to provide you with logs of all key usage to help meet your regulatory and compliance needs.
CyberArk
It is the only security software company focused on eliminating cyber threats using insider privileges to attack the heart of the enterprise.
Azure Key Vault
Secure key management is essential to protect data in the cloud. Use Azure Key Vault to encrypt keys and small secrets like passwords that use keys stored in hardware security modules (HSMs). For more assurance, import or generate keys in HSMs, and Microsoft processes your keys in FIPS 140-2 Level 2 validated HSMs (hardware and firmware). With Key Vault, Microsoft doesn’t see or extract your keys. Monitor and audit your key use with Azure logging—pipe logs into Azure HDInsight or your security information and event management (SIEM) solution for more analysis and threat detection.
Docker Secrets
A container native solution that strengthens the Trusted Delivery component of container security by integrating secret distribution directly into the container platform.
Doppler
Stop struggling with scattered environment variables, hacking together home-brewed tools, and avoiding access controls. Keep your team and servers in sync with Doppler.
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