AWS Secrets Manager vs SolarWinds Passportal comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Enterprise Password Managers category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.8, while SolarWinds is ranked #26. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 19.4% mindshare in EPM, compared to SolarWinds’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 16, 2024

AWS Secrets Manager and SolarWinds Passportal are competitors in digital security management. AWS Secrets Manager is advantageous for those using AWS services due to its seamless integration.

Features: AWS Secrets Manager provides robust encryption, automatic rotation of secrets, and fine-grained access control. SolarWinds Passportal offers password management, documentation management, and secure sharing specifically designed for managed service providers.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AWS Secrets Manager is straightforward to deploy within the AWS ecosystem. SolarWinds Passportal focuses on ease of use and quick setup, emphasizing customer service with dedicated support for managed service providers.

Pricing and ROI: AWS Secrets Manager uses a usage-based pricing model, which may be cost-effective for enterprises using AWS services. SolarWinds Passportal has a subscription model that may provide higher ROI in managed service provider scenarios due to its targeted features.

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Review summaries and opinions

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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

SolarWinds Passportal

Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers

26th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Enterprise Password Managers category, the mindshare of AWS Secrets Manager is 19.4%, down from 20.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Passportal is 0.2%, up from 0.2% 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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JamalleWilson

Remote Network Support Analyst Level 2 at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

With its extension, I can quickly access login information without opening a new browser window

Passportal's stability is okay. However, it goes down a little too often for me to recommend it to somebody else. I can only remember one or two outages with IT Glue. With Passportal, it gets frustrating when you need to reset a password for a client, and you have to put their global admin address in there because what you're doing requires admin privileges. But you can't get in there because Passportal isn't working, and the password might be a 48-character password. If it's down for five minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes — that's too long. It's a real inconvenience. It doesn't happen all the time, but I've been at this job two months, and it's probably happened three or four times. I don't like this. I'm used to having it right at my fingertips. I need access now. With the influx of tickets coming in and time management, it needs to be like that.

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

"Secrets Manager helps in retrieving the enrollment variables used by the code."

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

"The most valuable feature is security."

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

"The solution is very scalable."

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

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

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"Passportal is very stable."

"I like Passportal's extensions. You can click the particular company you want and go through all the passwords and usernames associated with that company or the specific webpage you're on or their server or whatever. It's a whole lot faster."

Cons

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

"The price of the solution could improve."

"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 solution's initial setup process is complicated."

"AWS Secrets Manager could support hybrid infrastructure."

"If you add one more layer of security to AWS Secrets Manager, even the programmer will not be able to see the secrets."

"It would be good if the AWS Secrets Manager were more customizable."

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"In the future, I would like the ability to have diagrams, such as those created by Visio, available directly in Passportal."

"It goes down a little too often for me to recommend it to somebody else."

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."

"We pay the license fee monthly and the price is reasonable."

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Questions from the Community

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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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

We offer credential injection, reporting, auditing, password change automation, and privileged client documentation capabilities—designed to streamline the technicians' day by placing essential documentation at their fingertips to standardize service delivery.

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Sample Customers

Autodesk, Clevy, Stackery

InfraNet Solutions, Securus Systems, Nehring Technologies, Doberman Technologies, Show Tech IT Solutions, CRC Data Technologies, Logically

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