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AWS Secrets Manager vs Pulumi Enterprise comparison

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Secrets Manager
Ranking in Secrets Management Tools
3rd
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Password Managers (2nd)
Pulumi Enterprise
Ranking in Secrets Management Tools
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
AI Infrastructure (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Secrets Management Tools category, the mindshare of AWS Secrets Manager is 38.3%, down from 39.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pulumi Enterprise is 0.6%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Secrets Management Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AWS Secrets Manager38.3%
Pulumi Enterprise0.6%
Other61.1%
Secrets Management Tools
 

Featured Reviews

Mahadev Metre - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Engineer at Paydoh
Consistent security and efficiency improvements optimize IT infrastructure with effective management
When creating AWS Secrets Manager, it should be automated using tools such as Terraform, Puppet, or Ansible. With Terraform code, you specify the encryption key, secret name, rotation policy, and secret replication. Human error occurs when feeding secret values manually, especially with large amounts of secrets to input. Secrets should never be protected only by IAM. They should be protected by multiple layers, such as IAM and one or two KMS keys. Additional security measures could be beneficial if necessary. The rotation policy is crucial because some secrets may become obsolete, require updates, or get compromised. With a weekly rotation policy, if unauthorized access occurs, the exposure is limited to seven days. The rotation policy can be customized according to needs.
Shrenik Jobanputra - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps engineer at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
Infrastructure as code has streamlined AWS deployments and now automates secure resource management
We had an issue once with Pulumi Enterprise versioning where one of the versions didn't work for us. I had to downgrade the Pulumi Enterprise version to make things work. I suggest ensuring that the higher versions of Pulumi Enterprise always work without issues. When the Pulumi Enterprise seminars and webinars happen, they're always dedicated to other time zones. Having a time zone for Australia Perth time would be nice because all the seminars are always at 2:00 a.m. in the morning for me at Perth or maybe after 5:00 p.m. or before 8:00 a.m. would be ideal. I enjoy attending the Pulumi Enterprise seminars, but they're just at odd times.

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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the management of credentials."
"Overall, this is a good product, we are satisfied with the support, and I recommend it."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Secrets Manager is its seamless integration with various AWS services."
"The solution is very scalable."
"The most valuable feature is security."
"It's highly scalable, so I'd rate it a ten out of ten."
"Before using Pulumi Enterprise, our deployment time was between thirty minutes to an hour, and now we can change anything in our cloud environment in just a few minutes, like two or three minutes, generally reducing time by about sixty to seventy percent."
"Pulumi Enterprise is a great tool for infrastructure as code deployments, and you can do it with any programming language, so it's quite useful."
"If you have a complex infrastructure or a big team, start using Pulumi Enterprise without any second thought."
"Pulumi Enterprise has impacted my organization positively as it is a modern infrastructure as code tool that helps us manage resources efficiently and reduce delivery time."
"Pulumi Enterprise is a very complete tool and it helps us a lot in our day-to-day work."
"Pulumi Enterprise has had a positive impact on my organization in terms of agility, standardization, and governance in the infrastructure-as-code area."
"<p>Pulumi Enterprise increases efficiency and reliability by providing seamless automation processes and tools while considering security and making secure infrastructure easy.</p>"
"Pulumi Enterprise is way better than Terraform in my opinion because it has a declarative syntax that Terraform does not have, which is really valuable."
 

Cons

"We contacted AWS support and waited approximately an hour for assistance."
"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 only concern with AWS Secrets Manager is its cost, which can be prohibitive for small organizations."
"There is room for improvement in terms of integrating with certain other platforms."
"AWS Secrets Manager could support hybrid infrastructure."
"An area for improvement in AWS Secrets Manager could be expanding integration options beyond AWS services."
"The sidecar feature has room for improvement."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"Pulumi Enterprise can be improved by providing much better support rather than relying solely on AI."
"<p>I have not seen any specific outcome or benefit that I have measured so far, such as saving time, reducing errors, or helping my team in a measurable way.</p>"
"Pulumi Enterprise's scalability is limited as it is not particularly scalable. You should keep the project relatively small to avoid simultaneous Pulumi runs."
"I think the cost was very high when I had discussions with the customers."
"In the past year, I remember instances when Cloud Code searched for documentation from Pulumi and usually returned a non-existent parameter, which caused me to spend a lot of time finding and removing the incorrect parameter."
"Additionally, I think the modules part is a bit weak."
"<p>Additionally, I sometimes struggle to see what we are paying for; we use Enterprise, but does the money justify what you are being offered when you have Terraform for free which offers a majority of the features already?</p>"
"<p>There should be more investment in building a stronger community around Pulumi Enterprise, as the Pulumi Enterprise community is not that strong compared to its capabilities.</p>"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Retailer
14%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Construction Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise5
 

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...
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...
What needs improvement with AWS Secrets Manager?
AWS Secrets Manager could not be better because there has been no frustration with the product.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pulumi Enterprise?
Pulumi Enterprise&#39;s pricing, setup costs, and licensing are not high. There is a cost, but there is also the open-source option which works very well.
What needs improvement with Pulumi Enterprise?
For improvement, I feel there can be other things. Sometimes I feel that the state and the stacks get large eventually and sometimes they give the output in a very long format and it is difficult t...
What is your primary use case for Pulumi Enterprise?
We use Pulumi Enterprise with the Python runtime to provision our Azure platform. The client was using Azure platform to create or manage the resources. We started providing them solutions with Pul...
 

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