AWS Secrets Manager

Learn how to sync secrets from Infisical to AWS Secrets Manager.

Prerequisites:

• Set up and add envars to Infisical Cloud
• Set up AWS and have/create an IAM user

1

Grant the IAM user permissions to access AWS Secrets Manager

Navigate to your IAM user permissions and add a permission policy to grant access to AWS Secrets Manager.

For better security, here’s a custom policy containing the minimum permissions required by Infisical to sync secrets to AWS Secrets Manager for the IAM user that you can use:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AllowSecretsManagerAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "secretsmanager:GetSecretValue",
        "secretsmanager:CreateSecret",
        "secretsmanager:UpdateSecret"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

2

Authorize Infisical for AWS Secrets Manager

Obtain a AWS access key ID and secret access key for your IAM user in IAM > Users > User > Security credentials > Access keys

Navigate to your project’s integrations tab in Infisical.

Press on the AWS Secrets Manager tile and input your AWS access key ID and secret access key from the previous step.

If this is your project’s first cloud integration, then you’ll have to grant Infisical access to your project’s environment variables. Although this step breaks E2EE, it’s necessary for Infisical to sync the environment variables to the cloud platform.

3

Start integration

Select how you want to integration to work by specifying a number of parameters:

Project Environment

string

required

The environment in Infisical from which you want to sync secrets to AWS Secrets Manager.

Secrets Path

string

required

The path within the preselected environment form which you want to sync secrets to AWS Secrets Manager.

AWS Region

string

required

The region that you want to integrate with in AWS Secrets Manager.

AWS SM Secret Name

string

required

The secret name/path in AWS into which you want to sync the secrets from Infisical.

Then, press Create Integration to start syncing secrets to AWS Secrets Manager.

Infisical currently syncs environment variables to AWS Secrets Manager as key-value pairs under one secret. We’re actively exploring ways to help users group environment variable key-pairs under multiple secrets for greater control.

Please note that upon deleting secrets in Infisical, AWS Secrets Manager immediately makes the secrets inaccessible but only schedules them for deletion after at least 7 days.