AWS recently announced the Parameters and Secrets Lambda Extension, a new way for developers to retrieve parameters from Systems Manager Parameter Store and secrets from Secrets Manager. The ...

Secrets Manager enables customers to store and retrieve application secrets via API or the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) and rotate credentials with built in or custom AWS Lambda functions.

AWS Secrets Manager will allow customers to exert more control over who is allowed to access certain credentials, and it does that by using AWS Lambda, the company’s serverless computing service.