AWS Secrets Manager vs LastPass comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 16, 2024

LastPass and AWS Secrets Manager are competing products in the realm of securing sensitive information and managing credentials. While AWS Secrets Manager is favored for its advanced features, LastPass has an edge in pricing and customer support.

Features: LastPass offers user-friendly credential management, password generation, and secure sharing. AWS Secrets Manager provides serverless secret management capable of automating secret rotation and fine-grained access control, with robust integration with AWS services.

Room for Improvement: LastPass could improve its integration capabilities with external services and enhance its automation features. AWS Secrets Manager might need an easier onboarding experience for non-AWS users and more straightforward cross-platform support. Both products can benefit from expanded mobile platform support.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: LastPass offers a straightforward deployment and ample customer support resources, ensuring a user-friendly experience. AWS Secrets Manager, integrated within AWS environments, benefits from extensive AWS documentation and support, offering a seamless experience for AWS users.

Pricing and ROI: LastPass provides a competitive pricing structure and quick ROI through simplicity and efficiency. AWS Secrets Manager involves higher upfront costs but offers substantial ROI for organizations leveraging AWS services due to its advanced features.

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AWS Secrets Manager vs. LastPass

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Secrets Manager

Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers

3rd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

LastPass

Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers

17th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Single Sign-On (SSO) (21st), AIOps (28th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Enterprise Password Managers category, the mindshare of AWS Secrets Manager is 19.7%, down from 20.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of LastPass is 2.8%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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ManuelTorres

Cyber security senior engineer at International Airlines Group (IAG)

Simplifies and secures secret management within the AWS ecosystem, though it could enhance integration capabilities with external platforms

AWS Secrets Manager has streamlined our processes for managing secrets and their lifecycle. We typically handle everything through automation, following a predefined approach. When we undertake our developments, we seamlessly integrate the process into our workflows. Essentially, our secrets require minimal intervention; they are automatically managed by the system itself. This ensures smooth operations without the need for manual intervention. We integrate this tool with various AWS services, utilizing AWS Secrets Manager specifically for AWS resources. Any application, service, or deployment within AWS leverages Secrets Manager whenever it requires access to it.

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Mike Klaus

Senior Systems Analyst/Administrator at a agriculture with 1-10 employees

Straightforward to set up, good support, intuitive to use, and offers good value for the cost

The most valuable feature is being able to use a single master password to access all of your other passwords. One feature that is really important to us is the ability to create secure notes. In our scenario, these are notes such as how to get some of our devices on the network. They are processes and procedures that we don't want anybody else to see, especially within the IT department. It's a small department and we have very many processes that we use, but not on a daily basis, so we aren't going to remember them. By using LastPass and secure notes, we can go back to those notes in a secure fashion and remind ourselves how to do certain things. For instance, how to create a test database for accounting, which is something that we do once a year. We don't want that to be out in a non-secure fashion, where somebody in the public can see it.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature is usability, as it is quite user-friendly."

"All our workloads are running on AWS, so integration with our workload is much easier on AWS Secrets Manager than going with another solution such as Thycotic."

"The most valuable feature is security."

"Integrating with other services was straightforward, especially within the AWS environment."

"The product is easy to use and is inexpensive."

"The API is fine and works well."

"The most valuable feature of AWS Secrets Manager is its seamless integration with various AWS services."

"The most valuable feature of AWS Secrets Manager is the ability to keep data secret and assign access permissions to people to grant or restrict access."

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"The most valuable feature is the liberty of keeping encrypted passwords and elevated information in a sealed vault."

"The shared folders is an important feature. It's the primary feature we use. Also, the ability for LastPass to autofill and hide the passwords, so we don't have to keep changing passwords every time a person leaves, is valuable."

"Scalability is fine, no issues with that, especially now that they have added different user-level permissions. That has made it a lot easier to delegate out certain features to have other people do."

"Reduction in number of sensitive passwords stored insecurely on local systems."

"It's always hard to put a value on return on investment. You avoid one breach and it's paid for a million times over. We got a penetration test company internally, just to see how secure our network is, and there happened to be one bit of software that had been overlooked by an external company that managed it. It hadn't been upgraded so that managed to get them into the network. They would've been able to access through the test thing a file that we had previously. If that was a real-life scenario they would have been able to get into our network and get full access to our organization's passwords. If they did get in, they would have gotten access to the cloud. The ROI we see is that we are completely secured compared to what we had previously where there was a vulnerability."

"The most valuable feature for me is being able to pair applications and user permissions."

"Tech support has been good. We haven't needed it much, because it is not a complex application. There is not that much you have to do with it."

"Until now, I haven't found anything like the dashboard. It gives you a security score. I find that to be really great. The Sharing Center is really great as well. And the Security Challenge is really great too."

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Cons

"AWS Secrets Manager could support hybrid infrastructure."

"There is room for improvement in terms of integrating with certain other platforms."

"There is a potential improvement in connecting AWS Secrets Manager to Jenkins CI/CD pipeline to automatically reflect changes in production."

"The sidecar feature has room for improvement."

"The price of the solution could improve."

"The solution's initial setup process is complicated."

"If you don't have enterprise support, then you will not be able to get through to them to get the help. It is not only applicable to AWS Secrets Manager. It is also applicable to any service on AWS."

"There is a need for better environmental implementation, such as having a security fund as a solution."

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"Right now we have two products; there is the password manager and there is the authenticator app. Ideally, these should be fully integrated and support better handling of two-factor authentication or any other authenticator data."

"It is not super feature laden. It does not stand out versus the competition."

"Its user interface should be better, and there should probably be more information about scalability."

"One thing I wish LastPass had is an integration with Active Directory, not for synchronizing users but to actually manage, in some way, privileged accounts by replacing the password of LastPass itself."

"We have issues from time to time where, for some reason, it just keeps auto logging-out the user and then, the next day, they'll come in and it will work just fine."

"The management through the plugin is poor. It consumes tons of client resources especially as an administrator."

"I also don't like the add-in for Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, because when you do the add-in, you can actually save that to your credentials in your IE, and the problem is, if I left my screen open, or any of the IT people leave their screen open someone could come up and access all their credentials in LastPass without having to put a password in within your own network. I don't like that functionality. We've banned that from any of our staff adding that as an add-in because we see that as a security risk."

"Our biggest issue over the years was around the stability of the LDAP sync to AD."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't believe there is a license cost for the solution."

"The cost is somewhat high."

"We've observed that AWS Secrets Manager pricing is based on a per-secret-per-month model. As a result, we prefer to divide our secrets into individual pieces to increase security and grant specific access permissions to certain secrets, systems, or individuals. However, this approach results in higher costs. Therefore, we have been exploring ways to combine our secrets into groups to reduce expenses and simplify management. Nonetheless, we acknowledge that this issue may not be related to the secret manager's functionality."

"We purchase a monthly license for the product."

"The solution is expensive."

"LastPass was cheap as chips. It was very cheap, hence one of the reasons we went with it. If you're a small organization and you're after something that'll do 90% of your requirements, it's very good. Licensing and all that was really cheap and simple to understand."

"You do not have to purchase licenses for your entire organization. You can scale as adoption grows."

"I have been involved with many password managers. Passportal, Secret Server, CyberArk, and BeyondTrust. I chose LastPass for our organization because of the pricing. The organization didn't want to implement something really expensive. LastPass, for what it's offering, for the price that it's offering the service, is unbeatable."

"In terms of pricing, my feeling is that they are all roughly the same. LastPass is in line with its competitors, plus or minute a dollar or two per month."

"If you import from sources like XML, keepass, CSV files be sure to clean the import files, this reduces the adjustments in the slow tool itself."

"I was not terribly alarmed with the pricing, and am pleased with the fact that a home license is included with each business license."

"The subscription model is rated at a fair price."

"The previous pricing was of good value. I don't really know, as of now, whether the new pricing is. The Enterprise license is $48 per license per year now. That is a steep increase of $24, which is what it was when we first signed up."

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15%

Financial Services Firm

13%

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Financial Services Firm

12%

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Questions from the Community

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Which is better - HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager?

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The most valuable feature of AWS Secrets Manager is its seamless integration with various AWS services.

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Overview

AWS Secrets Manager helps you protect secrets needed to access your applications, services, and IT resources. The service enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Auto-pilot for all your passwords

LastPass removes obstacles, letting you get back to the things you love most.

Log in and go

Once you save a password in LastPass, you'll always have it when you need it; logging in is fast and easy.

Passwordless login

Gain instant access to your LastPass vault by using the LastPass Authenticator instead of your master password.

Generate strong passwords

The built-in password generator creates long, randomized passwords that protect against hacking.

Store digital records

Insurance cards, memberships, Wi-Fi passwords... keep all your notes safe and easy to find.

Share effortlessly

Some things shouldn't be sent in a text. Conveniently and safely share passwords and notes with anyone.

Dark web monitoring

Stop worrying about data breaches. Get alerts if your personal information is at risk.

Sample Customers

Autodesk, Clevy, Stackery

Deakin University, Duke University, Code.org, Influitive, PeopleKeys, SMA Technologies, Skynamo

AWS Secrets Manager vs. LastPass