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Kate Gawron
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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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Configuring AWS Key Management Service and Secrets Manager

Secrets Manager is an encrypted and secure key-value store where you can save any information you would like to keep secret. It integrates natively into a wide range of AWS services, including most of their database platforms, such as RDS and DocumentDB. It can automate password rotation and sync the changes to your databases to ensure your application is disrupted.

A common problem that is resolved using AWS Secrets Manager is storing database passwords within the application or in text files that can easily be accessed by unauthorized users. You can store the database passwords in AWS Secrets Manager and use the AWS CLI to retrieve them. These passwords can be changed on an automatic schedule and will update both the passwords stored with AWS Secrets Manager, as well as within the RDS databases. To allow your application to obtain these passwords from Secrets Manager, you will need to modify the code to allow your application...

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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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