# Protect the Configuration with AWS Secrets Manager

Amazon AWS Secrets Manager can be utilized on an EC2 instance hosting Keeper Commander in order to protect and store the configuration data.

The AWS Secrets Manager protected storage resource URL format is as follows:

```
aws-sm://<SECRET-REGION>/<SECRET_NAME>
```

**Example**:

`aws-sm://us-west-2/commander/config`

The secret name should contain URL-safe characters and not start with forward slash `/`

Keeper Commander requires the following access permissions to the secret resource

* **secretsmanager:GetSecretValue**
* **secretsmanager:PutSecretValue**

Example AWS policy granting access to secret

{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```json
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "secretsmanager:GetSecretValue",
                "secretsmanager:PutSecretValue"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:secretsmanager:<region-id>:<account-id>:secret:<unique-secret-name>"
        }
    ]
}
```

{% endcode %}

{% hint style="info" %}
Keeper Commander installed with `pip` requires `boto3` package to present in the virtual environment

`pip install boto3`
{% endhint %}


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