How I Manage Credentials in Python Using AWS Secrets Manager
A platform-agnostic way of accessing credentials in Python
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8 min readFeb 11, 2021
Even though AWS enables fine-grained access control via IAM roles, sometimes in our scripts, we need to use credentials to external resources not related to AWS, such as API keys, database credentials, or passwords of any kind. There is a myriad of ways of handling…