Security & Threat Intelligence · 25.07.2026, 15:29 UTC
How to use the AWS Workload Credentials Provider for cross-account secret retrieval and prefetching secrets
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| Kategorie | Security & Threat Intelligence |
| Quelle | AWS Security Blog ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 25.07.2026 UTC |
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If you manage secrets across multiple AWS accounts or need faster secret access for latency-sensitive applications, this post shows you how to meet those requirements using two new features of the AWS Workload Credentials Provider (provider). You will learn how to configure role chaining for cross-account secret retrieval and prefetching of secrets to reduce cold-start latency. By using role chaining, you can access secrets across AWS accounts through a single provider instance by assuming AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles. Prefetching populates the provider’s in-memory cache with secrets at startup so your application can retrieve secrets without waiting for the first request to trigger a network call at runtime. What is the AWS Workload Credentials Provider? AWS Secrets Manager stores and rotates credentials, API keys, and other secrets. The AWS Workload Credentials Provider is a client-side HTTP service that retrieves and caches secrets locally. This reduces latency, improves availability during transient failures, and lowers costs. It supports post-quantum TLS by default, requires no language-specific SDK, and works across Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and AWS Lambda. For more details, see the Workload Credentials Provider documentation and GitHub repository. Security considerations The Server-Side Requst Forger (SSRF) token prevents unauthorized processes from accessing the provider’s HTTP endpoint. Only applications that can read the …
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