AWS Secrets Manager vs. Akeyless Identity Security Platform

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.

Akeyless delivers identity security for an era shaped by automation and AI. The cloud-native platform secures machines, AI agents, and human access across hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-prem environments. It provides a practical path to secretless, identity-based access through secrets management, certificate lifecycle management and PKI, PAM, and unified governance. Akeyless is built on a cryptography foundation that combines encryption, key management, and Distributed Fragments Cryptography to keep sensitive material under customer control and protected from post-quantum threats.