Using AWS Secrets Manager

A new library, and thoughts on the unreliability of open source maintenance.

I’ve been anticipating the release of Amazonka 2.0 for several years now. The latest release on Hackage requires base <= 4.14 (GHC 8.10), and this is the last package that has held me back from upgrading the Type Classes server. Unwilling to wait any longer, I’ve given up on Amazonka.

I was only using it for one thing: to fetch passwords stored in AWS Secrets Manager. So it wasn’t hard to replace Amazonka with my own library that is simply a small wrapper for the official AWS command line interface. My package is aws-secrets.