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It's all unencrypted secrets from perspective of an attacker. If they somehow already have enough access to read your environment variables, then they can definitely access secrets manager records authorized for that service. By all means put secrets management in a secondary service to prevent leaking keys, but you don't need a cloud service to do that.


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