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by scrollaway 3126 days ago
I don't understand why so few people talk about ParameterStore. It's a fantastic tool, and AWS does such a terrible job of advertising it.. hidden under SSM, an offering non-enterprise users probably don't care about, and giving the wrong impression that it's only for EC2.

ParameterStore should be part of KMS instead I think.

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You're right. I've never even heard of ParameterStore before.
Exactly. I was wishing for an AWS based cli accessible credstore service for a while and didn't even know this existed until just the other week.

One big problem with AWS and their incremental features / improvements is you never hear about much of it, or its buried in a post from Jeff's blog that you have to watch like a hawk to keep up with.

I can recommend subscribing to Most recent announcements from AWS[1] for keeping up. You'll get weekly summary emails with headlines, HN style. They link to articles here[2].

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/subscribe-to-aws-announcements/

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/

I had/have the same problem.

Since a while, I subscribed to „AWS this week“ on YouTube from a cloud Guru. This is just 5 minutes, and you have a good idea what‘s going on. (I have no affiliation)