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hands-on labMigrating Hard-coded Secrets in AWS Lambda to AWS Secrets Manager
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Lab steps
Logging In to the Amazon Web Services Console
Making a Simple API Call with AWS Lambda
Migrating a Hard-coded Secret to AWS Secrets Manager
Retrieving a Secret from AWS Secrets Manager with AWS Lambda
Lab description

AWS Secrets Manager is a fully managed service for managing sensitive digital credentials. Types of secrets that can be managed with AWS Secrets Manager include API keys, passwords, tokens, and certificates. AWS Secrets Manager also addresses the security and maintenance concerns that come with hardcoding sensitive pieces of data directly in your code.

With AWS Secrets Manager, you can replace hard-coded credentials in your code by retrieving the secret programmatically using an AWS Secrets API call.

In this lab, you will migrate a hard-coded API key in an AWS Lambda function to AWS Secrets Manager and update the function code to follow a secure pattern that is also easy to maintain.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this lab, you will be able to:

  • Store a secret in AWS Secrets Manager
  • Access a secret from an AWS Lambda function

Intended Audience

  • Candidates for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam
  • Cloud Architects
  • Software Engineers

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

  • Secret Management
  • The Python programming language
  • The Linux command line

The following courses and labs can be used to fulfill the prerequisite:

Updates

April 24th, 2023 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to the latest UI

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