Systems Manager Parameter Store - seanremenyi/Notes_aws_developer GitHub Wiki

Scenario: Needs a place to store parameters for your application for example, licence keys, db connection information, user names and passwords, etc. This info needs to be passed to your ec2 as a bootstrap script avoid harcoding sensitive info maintain the confidentiality of the information

store confidential info Plain text or encryted using kms can refernence your parameters using the parameter name (e.g. bootstrap script) integrated with AWS service, you can use Parameter store with EC2, Cloud Formation, Lambda, Codebuild, CodePipeline and Code Deploy