AWS Secretsmanager get-secret-value | What & How

AWS secretsmanager get-secret-value is useful in retrieving the contents of encrypted fields. Read on to learn more. 

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About AWS Secretsmanager 

AWS Secrets Manager is responsible for protecting secrets required to access our services, applications, and IT resources. Furthermore, this service allows us to effortlessly manage, rotate as well as retrieve API keys, database credentials, and other secrets throughout their lifespan. Let’s take a look at some of the benefits offered by AWS Secret Manager:

• Rotates secrets safely
• Programmatically retrieve encrypted secret values at runtime
• Manages access with well-tuned policies
• Stores different types of secrets
• Secures and audits secrets centrally
• Encrypts secret data
• Controls access to secrets
• Pay as you go pricing plan
• Replicates secrets easily to multiple regions

Furthermore, we can opt to enable rotation on Amazon DocumentDB and Amazon Redshift. In fact, we can store secrets for any type of database or service. In order to do that, we have to configure a custom Lambda rotation function. Fortunately, our AWS Support Techs are available 24/7 to help you out with that.

What is AWS Secretsmanager get-secret-value

According to our team of experts, AWS secretsmanager get-secret-value. is responsible for retrieving the contents of encrypted fields. Moreover, the retrieval takes place from either SecretString or SecretBinary of the specific version of a secret, depending on which one contains content.

Furthermore, our AWS Support Techs recommend caching the secret values via client-side caching. In other words. it helps reduce costs while improving the speed at the same time.

Additionally, the required permission includes secretsmanager:GetSecretValue.  However, if the secret encryption is done via a customer-managed key rather than an AWS-managed key, we will need kms:Decrypt permission as well.

get-secret-value
--secret-id 
[--version-id ]
[--version-stage ]
[--cli-input-json ]
[--generate-cli-skeleton ]

• –secret-id (string): Name of the secret or ARN.
• –version-id (string): Unique identifier of the version of the secret.
• –version-stage (string): Staging label of the version of the secret
• –cli-input-json (string): It is based on the JSON string and performs a service activity.
• –generate-cli-skeleton (string): Without sending an API call, it prints a JSON skeleton to standard output.

aws secretsmanager get-secret-value \
--secret-id MySecret

However, sometimes we may run into errors while using the-secret-value. Here are some of the commonly seen errors while using get-secret-value include:

• DecryptionFailure
• InternalServiceError
• InvalidParameterException
• InvalidRequestException
• ResourceNotFoundException

Fortunately, all you have to do is drop us a line and our AWS Support Team will get to the bottom of it in no time.

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Conclusion

In brief, our skilled AWS Support Engineers at Bobcares demonstrated how to use AWS secretsmanager get-secret-value.