Manage Application Configuration and Secrets

Supports hierarchical structure

Maintains history of configuration over a period of time

Multi language SDK support to retrieve configuration:

ssm.get_parameters(Names=['LambdaSecureString'])

Simplified Operations:

Configuration can be changed without releasing a new Lambda version!

Monitoring (CloudWatch), Notifications(SNS) and Auditing(AWS CloudTrail)

Integrates with:

AWS KMS - Encrypt your configuration values

Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AWS Lambda, .. - Use configured values from your

code

AWS Secrets Manager - More powerful management for secrets (Automatic Rotation)