Best Practices
Assign an IAM role to your EKS pod to grant access to AWS Secrets Manager. This avoids hardcoding AWS credentials in your application.
Use AWS Secrets Manager's automatic rotation feature to ensure credentials are regularly updated.
If your application is already running on Kubernetes, the CSI Driver approach is more Kubernetes-native and integrates well with the ecosystem.
Ensure secrets are encrypted at rest and in transit.Use Kubernetes RBAC to restrict access to secrets.
Use AWS CloudTrail and Kubernetes audit logs to monitor access to secrets.