[lukeschlather]

This sounds an awful lot like an internal Amazon tool that predates AWS secret manager. It was actually really nice to use; the advantage comes if you always can rely on the daemon being available and you can just say "these machines have access to this secret." If you had to set up and configure the VM, maybe pointless, but it's intended for situations where you're deploying 1000s of VMs with many teams and some centralized team is preparing the machine images you're using.