AWS Secrets Manager vs LastPass Business comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and LastPass are both solutions in the Enterprise Password Managers category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #2 with an average rating of 9.2, while LastPass is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.7. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 14.3% mindshare in EPM, compared to LastPass’s 3.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of LastPass users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 2026

LastPass Business and AWS Secrets Manager are both solutions in the secure credential and secrets management category. AWS Secrets Manager holds the upper hand due to its comprehensive feature set and seamless integration with AWS services.

Features: LastPass Business provides efficient password sharing, auditing logs, and policy management. AWS Secrets Manager offers robust integration with AWS ecosystems, automated rotations, and fine-grained access control.

Room for Improvement: LastPass Business could enhance integration capabilities, expand its feature set for non-password credentials, and improve scalability for larger enterprises. AWS Secrets Manager might focus on simplifying the user interface, streamlining the setup for users new to AWS, and offering more flexible pricing models.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: LastPass Business is noted for its quick setup and responsive customer support. AWS Secrets Manager, while requiring more initial technical expertise, benefits from its deep integration into AWS services.

Pricing and ROI: LastPass Business is cost-effective, ideal for small to mid-sized businesses with lower initial costs. AWS Secrets Manager, although more expensive initially, offers significant ROI for organizations deeply integrated with AWS.

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Secrets Manager

Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers

2nd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Secrets Management Tools (3rd)

LastPass Business

Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers

7th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Single Sign-On (SSO) (7th), AIOps (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Enterprise Password Managers category, the mindshare of AWS Secrets Manager is 14.3%, down from 18.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of LastPass Business is 3.6%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Password Managers Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
AWS Secrets Manager	14.3%
LastPass Business	3.6%
Other	82.1%

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Mahadev Metre

DevOps 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.

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John Lewis

Senior Software Engineer at EY

Centralized password vault has transformed access control and dramatically improved security

LastPass Business is a seamless password management tool. Now we use it across the company and it helps streamline the storage and retrieval of the myriad of passwords that we all encounter on the web these days, making it easy to share across accounts and help individuals get access to the passwords they need to do their jobs quickly and easily. It is a better alternative than having to remember passwords or write them down on Post-it notes, especially as most of our staff has transitioned to remote work. It solves most of our information technology and cybersecurity issues. LastPass Business does a good job of organizing passwords and making it easy to share some and not others. I have a personal and a company LastPass Business account, and it is seamless to shift between them. The website autofill integration is great and makes logging into sites a breeze. Autofill helps us log in seamlessly to various apps where we do not have to remember the password; it automatically autofills the password and we are able to log in, saving a lot of time. LastPass Business has a good structure to manage different departments' passwords and suggests strong passwords when setting up new accounts. It allows users to not have to remember the password since it is saved securely. It has a Vault that saves and stores organization-wide credentials. I love that because it is very secure and saves time from having to ask a coworker for their logging information. We are able to share that information and remotely collaborate easily. It has increased our security by 40 to 55 percent because LastPass Business has a Vault that saves and stores organization-wide credentials where it is very secure and easy to access. It saves time from having to ask a coworker for their logging information, takes the stress out of worrying about internet security and related threats, and helps make the onboarding and offboarding process easier for the HR and OPS teams with little concern for employees changing logins and little to no worry about data breaches and other security issues. Since we deployed it, we do not have to waste time logging into multiple apps in my organization. It makes it very easy for new hires to be able to log in to multiple apps within LastPass Business, saving a lot of time. LastPass Business is deployed in my organization as a Hybrid Cloud.

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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

"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."

"AWS Secrets Manager has impacted my organization positively through security improvements because on that basis, I can rotate my keys and passwords at a certain time."

"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."

"In summary, this is a good product and well suits our needs."

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

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

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

"I would recommend everyone to use AWS Secrets Manager for their security and for storing their passwords, because I see that passwords nowadays are easily compromised."

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"The most valuable feature is the liberty of keeping encrypted passwords and elevated information in a sealed vault."

"It's always hard to put a value on return on investment. You avoid one breach and it's paid for a million times over. We got a penetration test company internally, just to see how secure our network is, and there happened to be one bit of software that had been overlooked by an external company that managed it. It hadn't been upgraded so that managed to get them into the network. They would've been able to access through the test thing a file that we had previously. If that was a real-life scenario they would have been able to get into our network and get full access to our organization's passwords. If they did get in, they would have gotten access to the cloud. The ROI we see is that we are completely secured compared to what we had previously where there was a vulnerability."

"LastPass Business has positively impacted my organization by making it more secure for critical applications and providing better visibility into weak passwords in use by department users, although the admin portal needs some work."

"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."

"If you're looking for a password management solution that can hold your passwords and share passwords among employees, one that is cloud-based - and even without the internet you can still access passwords - and if you need a solution that that has the best price for the best product, LastPass is the one."

"Since I started using LastPass Business, everything has been positive because I have seen an increase in data protection."

"The stability has been rock solid."

"Until now, I haven't found anything like the dashboard. It gives you a security score. I find that to be really great. The Sharing Center is really great as well. And the Security Challenge is really great too."

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Cons

"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."

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

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

"There is a potential improvement in connecting AWS Secrets Manager to Jenkins CI/CD pipeline to automatically reflect changes in production."

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

"The sidecar feature has room for improvement."

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

"AWS Secrets Manager could support hybrid infrastructure."

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"The biggest thing is there is no good way to have LastPass rotate passwords without human intervention. Right now, we have to go into each folder, then rotate and manually update each password. It can be done it by loading a bunch of passwords into a spreadsheet, but this makes the whole process insecure because then the passwords have been noted into a spreadsheet which have to be upload. We have to go into 40 to 50 applications and manually update passwords, because we don't view their solution of writing a bunch of passwords on a spreadsheet, then uploading them as a secure solution. This should be done internally within LastPass."

"LastPass has a problem syncing the passwords to all of the users."

"One thing I wish LastPass had is an integration with Active Directory, not for synchronizing users but to actually manage, in some way, privileged accounts by replacing the password of LastPass itself."

"LastPass Business does not allow people to copy and save passwords from shared folders into a personal vault."

"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."

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

"I struggle a little bit with the mobile app. As a browser extension, it works really well, and we are able to get to what we need to. However, on the phone, it's not quite as easy to navigate."

"Its user interface should be better, and there should probably be more information about scalability."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive."

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

"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 cost is somewhat high."

"We purchase a monthly license for the product."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I was not terribly alarmed with the pricing, and am pleased with the fact that a home license is included with each business license."

"You do not have to purchase licenses for your entire organization. You can scale as adoption grows."

"The subscription model is rated at a fair price."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Large Enterprise	10

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Large Enterprise	17

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 needs improvement with AWS Secrets Manager?

AWS Secrets Manager could not be better because there has been no frustration with the product.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for LastPass Enterprise?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is a very cost-effective and affordable tool.

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What needs improvement with LastPass Enterprise?

LastPass Business can be improved by making the user log section much clearer and having more accurate options. An improvement needed is to add an option in the settings that automatically changes ...

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What is your primary use case for LastPass Enterprise?

My main use case for LastPass Business is that it is being used across the whole organization, helping us by unifying and centralizing password management for all our users. With users having more ...

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Overview

AWS Secrets Manager offers key-value storage, credential management, and secure access permissions, streamlining the handling of API keys and secret information within the AWS environment.

AWS Secrets Manager integrates seamlessly with AWS services, supporting secure management of credentials and encryption with KMS. It enhances security and efficiency with automated secret retrieval, IAM roles, and version control. While its simplicity and cost-effectiveness are notable, there is potential for improvement in rate limits, integrating with platforms like Azure, and addressing small organization pricing. Its centralized approach benefits auto-scaling, secure card details, microservices, and databases.

What are the main features of AWS Secrets Manager?

Key-Value Pair Storage: Stores credentials securely.
Credential Management: Manages system-to-system credentials.
Rotation Configurations: Supports Lambda-based automatic secret rotation.
Seamless Integration: Works smoothly with AWS services.
API Key Handling: Secure management of API keys and secrets.

What benefits should users consider when evaluating AWS Secrets Manager?

Enhanced Security: Automated encryption and secret retrieval.
Cost-Effectiveness: Reduces risks and facilitates AWS integration.
Operational Efficiency: Simplifies credential management.

AWS Secrets Manager is implemented in diverse industries for managing sensitive information, facilitating secure operations for microservices, GoLang applications, and databases. It supports orchestration and dynamic secret retrieval, beneficial for automated scaling and secure data access during application runtime.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

LastPass Business enhances enterprise security with features like password sharing, user deactivation, and login control. Integrated with Active Directory, it ensures password management through a security dashboard, multifactor authentication, and YubiKey support.

LastPass Business provides comprehensive password management by supporting secure storage, shared folders, and master passwords for streamlined access. With an enterprise admin console and robust reporting tools, it efficiently manages credentials. It supports secure storage for procedures and notes, crucial for IT departments. Improvement areas include group inheritance, admin capabilities, and automated password rotation. Issues like URL recognition, plugin stability, and user access reporting need addressing. Enhancements in mobile app navigation and technical support are also needed, alongside increased customization and authentication options.

What are the key features of LastPass Business?

Password Sharing: Allows secure credential sharing among team members.
User Deactivation: Easily manage and deactivate user access.
Multifactor Authentication: Enhances security with additional authentication methods.
Security Dashboard: Provides insights into password health and security scores.
Integration with Active Directory: Facilitates user management and credential syncing.
Enterprise Admin Console: Centralizes admin controls for credential management.

What benefits should users expect when evaluating LastPass Business?

Enhanced Security: Multifactor authentication and secure storage protect sensitive data.
Improved Access Management: Streamlines login processes and improves control.
Efficient Credential Management: Simplifies admin tasks with reporting tools.
Collaboration Support: Securely shares credentials among employees and contractors.
Reduced Security Risks: Encourages complex password adoption and reduces simple password reliance.

In specific industries, LastPass Business is implemented as a vital tool for storing and synchronizing encrypted credentials, supporting robust password policies, and facilitating secure access control management. Organizations benefit from storing shared accounts and managing core enterprise admin passwords, promoting higher security standards across users and applications.

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