A company needs to securely store important credentials that an application uses to connect users to a database. Which AWS service can meet this requirement with the MINIMAL amount of operational over

The correct answer is C. AWS Secrets Manager. AWS Secrets Manager is designed to securely store and manage sensitive information such as database credentials, API keys, and other secrets. It simplifies secret management by enabling automatic secret rotation, secure access, and fine-grained permissions, all with minimal opera

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A company needs to securely store important credentials that an application uses to connect users to a database. Which AWS service can meet this requirement with the MINIMAL amount of operational overhead?

Options

AAWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
BAWS Config
CAWS Secrets Manager
DAmazon GuardDuty

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B
5% (1)
C
95% (21)

Explanation

AWS Secrets Manager is designed to securely store and manage sensitive information such as database credentials, API keys, and other secrets. It simplifies secret management by enabling automatic secret rotation, secure access, and fine-grained permissions, all with minimal operational overhead.

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