Amazon FSx now integrates with AWS Secrets Manager for enhanced management of Active Directory credentials

Amazon FSx now integrates with AWS Secrets Manager, enabling enhanced protection and management of the Active Directory domain service account credentials for your FSx for Windows File Server file systems and FSx for NetApp ONTAP Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs).

Previously, if you wanted to join your FSx for Windows file system or FSx for ONTAP SVM to your Active Directory domain for user authentication and access control, you needed to specify the username and password for your service account in the Amazon FSx Console, Amazon FSx API, AWS CLI, or AWS CloudFormation. With this launch, you can now specify an AWS Secrets Manager secret containing the service account credentials, enabling you to strengthen your security posture by eliminating the need to store plain text credentials in application code or configuration files, and aligning with best practices for credential management. Additionally, you can use AWS Secrets Manager to rotate your Active Directory credentials and consume them when needed in FSx workloads.

You can now use AWS Secrets Manager to store your domain join service credentials for all FSx for Windows file systems and FSx for ONTAP Storage Virtual Machines in all AWS Regions where they are available. For more information, see Amazon FSx for Windows File Server documentation and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP documentation.