Security is one of 5 pillars of the Well-Architected framework, it can archive by applying best practices and principals in IAM, Encryption, Complician, and Governance. Of course, best practices aren’t enough, you need to learn more. In this post, I only share our best practices and tip when working with AWS SSM Parameter Store. By sharing our best practices, my hope is to encourage you to build and deploy secure and reliable applications and also giving us your feedback.
As you know, AWS Lambda supports native environment variables, you can easy to define and add any environment variables you want during deployment or change on the AWS Console Management. But using native environment variables contains some disadvantages: