February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
13h 51m
English
In this recipe, we created a parameter in the AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store and retrieved it. We can use the parameter from any service without needing to hardcode its values. Now, we can update the value for that parameter from one place.
For retrieving and decrypting the parameter value that was encrypted, we used the get-parameters subcommand of the aws ssm CLI command with the --with-decryption option. The default is --no-with-decryption if none is specified and does not decrypt the value.
We can also create parameters without encryption by setting Type to String instead of SecureString.
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