AWS Secrets Manager costs you thousands of dollars every year!

If you’re currently using AWS Secrets Manager to manage your app secrets, you are missing out on a better solution: Onboardbase handles end-to-end secret management for the whole team!

You’re leaving money on the table!

AWS Secrets Manager charges you $0.4 per secret and $0.05 per 10k API calls, every month!

Even if you manage to decode this pricing, it’s difficult to predict these costs. I mean come on, $4 for 10 secrets per month? That’s just too much!

Compared to Onboardbase starting at a flat rate of $14 per user per month without hidden fees, chances are your savings will be on the higher side.

Save yourself from headaches. Save money every month. But also, save precious time!

Everything you need, from the get-go

AWS Secrets Manager requires you to juggle with multiple AWS services just to get started. AWS Identity and Access Management? AWS Management Console? AWS Logging? Urgh, kill me already. Why are we putting ourselves through a time-consuming and frustrating process when we could just focus on our product?

The lack of environment or project segmentation complicates everything.

Sure, the tool integrates well with other AWS services, but did you see the look of the user interface?

It’s just not for the whole team. And good luck with getting set up or maintenance if you don’t have a dedicated teammate to keep your secret infrastructure up to date.

Injecting secrets into your development environment is painful as well―why can’t it just work right away?

This is where Onboardbase significantly improves your secret management experience.

Onboardbase offers end-to-end encryption with role-based access control, ensuring that secrets are not only stored securely but are also only accessible to the right people at the right time. It just works out of the box, no need to piece together multiple services just to manage your secrets.

Simply collaborative

Onboardbase expands on basic secret management features with a more collaborative and intuitive interface designed to simplify the whole process secrets across teams without compromising on security.

Unlike AWS Secrets Manager, which requires administrative oversight for managing access, Onboardbase enables teams to work together in a more decentralized way with simple role-based access control and device management.

Predefined roles that cater to common team structures―Owner, Admin, Employee―make it easy to assign appropriate levels of access and permissions without getting lost in the complexities of IAM policies. You can then use different project and environment-level groups to further refine access control, ensuring that team members only have access to the secrets they need.

Onboardbase introduces an extra layer of security with its device management feature. This allows you to restrict access to secrets based on the device being used, ensuring that even if credentials are compromised, they cannot be exploited from unauthorized devices. This feature is particularly useful in environments where team members may work from multiple devices or locations.

It’s future-proof!

Onboardbase doesn’t just match AWS Secrets Manager’s features. It also goes further.

Monitoring secrets is a critical aspect of securing your infrastructure, and while AWS Secrets Manager offers integrations with AWS’s logging, monitoring, and notification services, the setup can be complex, time-consuming, and often incurs additional costs.

Instead, Onboardbase gives you real-time monitoring of secret usage, coupled with device management and codebase secret detection to proactively protect your secrets against potential vulnerabilities. An elegant solution specifically designed for root-cause analysis and human-error prevention. Webhooks included. Something that requires weeks of work with AWS.

Unlike AWS Secrets Manager which mainly focuses on storing secrets within the AWS ecosystem, Onboardbase integrates with CI/CD tools, UI frameworks, serverless providers, and web frameworks, ensuring that your secrets are managed efficiently across your entire tech stack and across different teams and projects, without risking secret sprawl and vendor lockin.

Talk is cheap, show us the code!

With AWS, you have to navigate through a maze of permissions, configure connections to other AWS services, and manage the intricacies of IAM roles and policies leading to errors which can potentially compromise the security of your secrets.

Adding secrets with Onboardbase can be done directly from the intuitive dashboard, through the command-line interface (CLI), or via API. Once you sign up for an Onboardbase account and create a new project, you can immediately begin adding secrets to your project. The simplicity of Onboardbase starts from the very beginning, making it accessible even if you’re not deeply familiar with the underlying infrastructure.

3 clicks and your secrets are stored in a secure vault with end-to-end encryption―AES-256-GCM for encryption at rest, RSA and SSL during transit.

The platform includes a powerful CLI tool. You can add Onboardbase to your code repository with a simple one-line install command, and then it’s just 3 commands to start using your secrets:

onboardbase login # authenticate to your account
onboardbase setup # configure your project and environment
onboardbase run "node app.js" # run your code with secrets injected

You can’t mess it up! The platform is designed with developers in mind, while also offering a superior user interface that requires minimal technical knowledge for other team members to contribute. No learning curve.

And that’s not all!

Beyond its core platform, Onboardbase offers a range of secondary features and tools that further enhance its value:

• Securelog provides an open-source secure console logging experience, to detect and prevent the leaking of secrets and API tokens into your logs.
• Pastebin allows you to share sensitive information securely and quickly with end-to-end encrypted messages with automatic deletion, perfect for when you need to transfer data without leaving a trail.
• Onboardbase Store acts as a secure key-value store, giving you a safe and organized way to manage your customer’s secrets.

And many more to come! We release new tools regularly, sometimes free and open-source.

Onboardbase is a no-brainer

Onboardbase is more than just a tool—it’s a comprehensive solution designed with startups in mind, offering a seamless, low-code approach to securing development workflows!

While AWS Secrets Manager has its merits, Onboardbase offers a more intuitive, cost-effective, and team-oriented solution that can simplify your secret management process. By switching to Onboardbase, you gain access to a platform that is designed to work for you, with features that not only make secret management easier but also enhance your overall development experience to save thousands of dollars every year in tooling and development costs.

Get started

Still not convinced? Try it out for yourself!

Onboardbase offers a compelling alternative to AWS Secrets Manager which can be used together with AWS services like AWS Lambda, to provide a centralized solution for managing secrets across various environments.

Have a look at our AWS Lambda integration guide to get started today!