AWS Lambda: How to store a secret to an external API?

In this video we take a look at how secrets, private keys and passwords should be stored in a lambda function. First, we extract hardcoded secrets into environment variables, then we learn how to encrypt these variables using a key from KMS (Key Management Service) and how to decrypt them in the lambda function.

Links:
The code used in this video: https://github.com/BiteSizeAcademy/lambda-secrets

Videos:

• Introduction to IAM (roles, users, groups and more) - https://youtu.be/1LV_ZuUSQiw
• How to install NPM modules in AWS Lambda - https://youtu.be/RnFowJ130pc
• Use layers with a lambda function - https://youtu.be/i12H4cUFudU

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