New integration delivers centralized visibility, automatic rotation, and control without data migration, preserving existing AWS workflows and security policies
NEW YORK and TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Akeyless, creator of the Unified Secrets and Machine Identity Platform, today announced the Universal Secrets Connector (USC) for AWS Secrets Manager, a new integration that allows enterprises to centrally manage all their secrets through the Akeyless platform, while synchronizing them in real-time to AWS Secrets Manager, without migrating sensitive data. The solution provides bi-directional synchronization between Akeyless and AWS Secrets Manager, allowing organizations to maintain unified governance and visibility across all their secret stores while preserving existing AWS security policies and workflows.
The Universal Secrets Connector creates secure views into AWS Secrets Manager, allowing organizations to manage their secrets through the Akeyless platform without moving or duplicating sensitive data, and avoiding fragmented secrets management across on-premises systems and other tools. This enables security teams to avoid creating operational silos when scaling their AWS deployments and maintain consistent security policies and visibility into who is accessing sensitive data across the enterprise.
The integration provides real-time, bi-directional synchronization, ensuring that changes made in either Akeyless or AWS Secrets Manager are automatically reflected across both systems. This approach allows security teams to maintain unified governance, implement consistent access policies, and gain comprehensive visibility across all secrets – whether stored in AWS, on-premises, or other environments – while preserving existing workflows and compliance requirements. USC provides visibility into AWS and other cloud instances as well as on-premises systems through a single pane of glass, eliminating the blind spots of fragmented vault sprawl.
With the integration, organizations can leverage Akeyless automatic rotation of numerous secret types – including database credentials, SSH keys, and API tokens. When Akeyless rotates a credential on the target system, the new secret is instantly updated in AWS Secrets Manager. This enables customers to consume their Akeyless-managed secrets seamlessly in their AWS workloads from AWS Secrets Manager. Customers can benefit from a higher security bar by leveraging the native integration of AWS Secrets Manager with other AWS services that handle customer secrets.
“Organizations shouldn’t have to choose between the AWS services they trust and the unified security they need,” said Oded Hareven, CEO and Co-founder of Akeyless. “Our Universal Secrets Connector represents a fundamental shift in how enterprises approach secrets management – instead of forcing data migration or accepting fragmentation, we’re enabling true unification while respecting existing investments and security boundaries. This integration embodies our vision of making enterprise security both more powerful and more practical.”
The integration supports all secret types, including database credentials, API keys, certificates, and encryption keys. The platform provides unified role-based access controls and comprehensive audit trails from a single dashboard, with all activity logged for compliance reporting. This simplifies the management of hundreds of instances across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, ensuring consistent policies and auditability without manual coordination or overhead. The Universal Secrets Connector leverages existing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles for authentication and deploys through the Akeyless Gateway, requiring no changes to current AWS configurations or security policies.
The AWS Secrets Manager integration is available immediately for all Akeyless enterprise customers. Organizations can enable the Universal Secrets Connector through their existing Akeyless deployment without any changes to their AWS environment configuration.
About Akeyless
Akeyless is the leader in secrets and machine identity management, providing a unified SaaS-based platform that secures and manages all machine identities, certificates, secrets, and encryption keys. The company’s innovative approach eliminates the need for multiple point solutions while providing enterprise-grade security with its patent-pending Zero-Knowledge technology. Akeyless enables organizations to establish a strong security posture while improving operational efficiency across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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