This post is contributed by Massimo Re Ferre – Principal Developer Advocate, AWS Container Services. Cloud security at AWS is the highest priority and the work that the Containers team is doing is a testament to that.
We’re going to take a quick look at storing secrets accessed by our serverless Lambda functions in AWS using the recently (April ’18) announced AWS Secrets Manager. The Secrets Manager main aim is to help you store, distribute and rotate credentials securely. Secrets come at $0.
An important aspect of running ASP.NET Core apps in the cloud is how you secure the secrets your app requires, things like connection strings and API keys.
Amazon ECS enables you to inject sensitive data into your containers by storing your sensitive data in AWS Secrets Manager secrets and then referencing them in your container definition. For more information, see Specifying Sensitive Data.
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