ASP.NET Core on AWS Lambda - Data Protection keys store as Env Variable

Question

NET Core web service, hosted on AWS Lambda, which requires built-in Cookie Authentication. I therefore need to share Data Protection key between multiple lambda instances.

I would like to save key either as environment variable in Lambda or through AWS Secrets Manager (or how exactly is it called)

Can I configure Data Protection to read key from Environment Variable? Has anyone done something like this yet?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Have you taken a look at the AWS DataProtection storage provider using SSM Parameter Store? https://github.com/aws/aws-ssm-data-protection-provider-for-aspnet