A different way of retrieving secrets in Lambda functions

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AWS Secrets Manager

It can cache the secrets, and we can configure the TTL, which reduces the number of API calls to Parameter Store or Secrets Manager.

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AWS Lambda

Let's see how we can incorporate the Parameter Store and Secrets Manager extension to our Lambda functions.

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Amazon Key Management Service

Permissions - The extension will use the Lambda function's execution role. We must give the role ssm:GetParameter permission for the given secret. If the secret is a SecureString, we should also add the kms:Decrypt permission to the KMS key that encrypts the secret.

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