AWS Secrets Manager works as a key-value store for secrets like passwords, access tokens, and cryptographic keys. AWS encrypts these secrets with the AWS Key Management Service (AWS-KMS). This tutorial shows how to set up a KES server that uses AWS Secrets Manager as a persistent key store protected by AWS-KMS: K E S C l i e n t K E S S e r v e r A W S S e c A r W e S t - s K - M M S a n a g e r AWS Secrets Manager Prerequisite You need an AWS access key and AWS secret key pair with sufficient IAM policy permissions to create, retrieve, and delete secrets with AWS Secrets Manager. Create AWS Access/Secret Key Pair.

AWS Secrets Manager works as a key-value store for secrets like passwords, access tokens, and cryptographic keys. AWS encrypts these secrets with the AWS Key Management Service (AWS-KMS). This tutorial shows how to set up a KES server that uses AWS Secrets Manager as a persistent key store protected by AWS-KMS: K E S C l i e n t K E S S e r v e r A W S S e c A r W e S t - s K - M M S a n a g e r AWS Secrets Manager Prerequisite You need an AWS access key and AWS secret key pair with sufficient IAM policy permissions to create, retrieve, and delete secrets with AWS Secrets Manager. Create AWS Access/Secret Key Pair.