How to use the AWS Secrets Manager Agent
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This article explains how to use the AWS Secrets Manager Agent, a new feature that allows you to retrieve secrets from AWS Secrets Manager in a standardized way across different AWS compute environments.
Specifically, the article covers:
- An overview of the new Secrets Manager Agent and its benefits
- Prerequisites and steps to create a secret in Secrets Manager
- Creating an IAM role and policies for accessing the secret
- Launching an EC2 instance and installing the Secrets Manager Agent on it
- Using the agent to retrieve the secret from the local web server
- Cleaning up the resources created in the process
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