AWS Secrets Manager vs LastPass comparison

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We performed a comparison between AWS Secrets Manager and LastPass based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Password Managers solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed AWS Secrets Manager vs. LastPass Report (Updated: October 2024).

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Secrets Manager

Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers

3rd

Average Rating

8.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

LastPass

Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers

16th

Average Rating

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Single Sign-On (SSO) (21st), AIOps (24th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Enterprise Password Managers category, the mindshare of AWS Secrets Manager is 24.5%, up from 23.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of LastPass is 2.9%, down from 3.7% 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)

Jan 23, 2024

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

I use it for handling any confidential tasks or operations within my systems. Typically, we rely on the AWS Identity and Access Management center to set specific rules. In most cases, systems autonomously manage the secrets. While there are admins who can handle secrets from the console, we aim to…

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Mike Klaus

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

Oct 21, 2021

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

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

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

"AWS Secrets Manager is used for storing secret information that has to be a secret from your customer and your employees."

"The API is fine and works well."

"The most valuable feature is security."

"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 of AWS Secrets Manager is its seamless integration with various AWS services."

"The most valuable feature is the management of credentials."

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"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."

"The stability has been rock solid. A couple of years ago, they were breached. However, if you had two-factor authentication enabled, it didn't affect you. We did, so it has been good."

"This product helps keep us secure."

"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."

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

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

"It is easy to use."

"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."

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Cons

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

"An area for improvement in AWS Secrets Manager could be expanding integration options beyond AWS services."

"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."

"The sidecar feature has room for improvement."

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

"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."

"The price of the solution could improve."

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

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"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."

"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."

"I would like to be able to reduce the log out time of the session."

"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."

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

"The ability to set up an account expiration limit/date would be very useful."

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

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"The solution is expensive."

"The cost is somewhat high."

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

"We purchase a monthly license for the product."

"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."

"The pricing and licensing are okay. Basically, at the last contract negotiation, they attempted to jack the rate up and we just said, "No." We still did negotiations with them, but they bumped everything up quite a bit."

"It would be nice to do a quarterly true-up process with them versus having to buy 50 licenses at a time when we realize we're out, then we have to buy more. So far, they have been nice about letting us exceed our allotment and just letting us true-up on our own, but a more robust quarterly true-up process would be good."

"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 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."

"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."

"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."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

14%

Insurance Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

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Questions from the Community

Which is better - Azure Key Vault or AWS Secrets Manager?

Azure Key Vault is a SaaS solution. You can easily store passwords and secrets securely and encrypt them. Azure Key Vault is a great solution to ensure you are compliant with security and governanc...

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Which is better - HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager?

HashiCorp Vault was designed with your needs in mind. One of the features that makes this evident is its ability to work as both a cloud-agnostic and a multi-cloud solution. As a cloud-agnostic sol...

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What do you like most about AWS Secrets Manager?

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.

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