Securing Sensitive Data with AWS Secrets Manager and Terraform

This guide provides detailed instructions on securing sensitive data using AWS Secrets Manager and HashiCorp Terraform. It outlines best practices for managing sensitive data, including credentials and passwords, which are critical for infrastructure management and application development. The document emphasizes the importance of protecting sensitive data as a prerequisite for security and compliance. It discusses how AWS Secrets Manager can secure sensitive data in an organization's environment and reviews methods for retrieving secrets and automating their rotation using AWS Lambda. Additionally, it addresses the challenges of managing sensitive data in Terraform, particularly regarding its display of sensitive information as plain text in state files. The guide is intended for organizations utilizing Terraform as an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solution and aims to improve security posture, governance, and compliance through centralized management of secrets.