As we've learned in our previous lessons, AWS Secrets Manager is a powerful service that helps protect access to your applications, services, and IT resources. It allows you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle. In this lesson, we're going to explore the advanced features of AWS Secrets Manager with Python's AWS SDK, Boto3.

One way to ensure that passwords are strong and secure is to generate a random password using AWS Secrets Manager. Let's see how we can accomplish this:

In this piece of code, we first create a client with AWS Secrets Manager using the boto3.client('secretsmanager') call. Then, we called the get_random_password() function, which generates a random password. The function accepts numerous parameters for customization, such as PasswordLength, ExcludeCharacters, , , , , , .