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Add to SafariWhen comparing Amazon Key Management Service vs SecretHub, the Slant community recommends SecretHub for most people. In the question“What are the best shared secret managers?” SecretHub is ranked 8th while Amazon Key Management Service is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose SecretHub is:
Everything is encrypted client-side. Only the people or machines you share a secret with, can decrypt it.
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Pros
Pro Extremely secure
Amazon has used a lot of techniques to harden the process of storing and securing keys in its service. For example, keys are not stored on disk, nor are they allowed to persist in memory.
Amazon employees can not access a user's secret keys physically and the keys themselves are stored in the same geographical region as the application they belong to.
Pro Easy to use from a single dashboard
AWS Key Management Service offers a single unified dashboard that teams can use to manage and store their secrets used in applications hosted on AWS services. In the dashboard users can create keys, retrieve them and audit key usage through detailed information offered to them
Pro Client-side encryption
Everything is encrypted client-side. Only the people or machines you share a secret with, can decrypt it.
Pro Audit logging
Every action you or your team members perform is logged. The audit logs give you full insight into who did what, when.
Pro Open Source
All client-side code is available on GitHub.
Pro As a Service
Do not worry about hosting your secret management solution, it is provided As as Service.
Cons
Con Does not generate certificates
KMS does not generate certificates, in order to generate them you have to roll out your own solution.
