Storing the Amazon RDS credentials in AWS Secrets Manager

This topic explains how AWS Secrets Manager can improve your security posture for credential retrieval with Elastic Beanstalk. It also provides references to specific resources that can help you configure credentials for your Elastic Beanstalk application.

AWS Secrets Manager helps you improve your security posture, by providing the ability to store and retrieve encrypted credentials. Storing the credentials in Secrets Manager helps avoid possible compromise by anyone who can inspect your application or the components related to it. Your code can make a runtime call to the Secrets Manager service to retrieve credentials dynamically. Secrets Manager also offers features like client-side secret caching components for runtime languages, which include Python, Go, and Java.

For more information, see the following topics in the AWS Secrets Manager User Guide.

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