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AWS elasticbeanstalk documentation change

Service: elasticbeanstalk · 2025-04-01 · Documentation medium

File: elasticbeanstalk/latest/relnotes/release-2025-03-28-al2023.md

Summary

Added support for environment variables to reference secrets from AWS Secrets Manager and Systems Manager Parameter Store

Security assessment

Documents new secure configuration feature but no evidence of patching existing vulnerabilities

Diff

diff --git a/elasticbeanstalk/latest/relnotes/release-2025-03-28-al2023.md b/elasticbeanstalk/latest/relnotes/release-2025-03-28-al2023.md
index ff046472b..c33a61406 100644
--- a/elasticbeanstalk/latest/relnotes/release-2025-03-28-al2023.md
+++ b/elasticbeanstalk/latest/relnotes/release-2025-03-28-al2023.md
@@ -7 +7 @@ ChangesNew platform versions
-This release provides new versions for AWS Elastic Beanstalk platforms based on Amazon Linux 2023. The release includes security updates. It also includes AMI, Docker, ECS based Docker, Go, Corretto, Tomcat, .NET, PHP, and Python updates.
+This release provides new versions for AWS Elastic Beanstalk platforms based on Amazon Linux 2023. The release includes security updates. It also includes AMI, Docker, ECS based Docker, Go, Corretto, Tomcat, .NET, PHP, and Python updates. This release also introduces a feature that adds support for Elastic Beanstalk environment variables to store secrets and parameters from AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.
@@ -28,0 +29 @@ The following table lists the changes included in this release.
+****New!** — Elastic Beanstalk supports configuration of environment variables to store secret and parameter data.** |  Starting with this release Elastic Beanstalk supports the option to reference AWS Secrets Manager secrets and Systems Manager Parameter Store parameters with environment variables. To learn more about this feature, see [Using Elastic Beanstalk with Secrets Manager and Systems Manager Parameter Store](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/AWSHowTo.secrets.html).