1Password has signed a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with AWS to help modern enterprises close security blind spots, accelerate secure cloud adoption, and manage access in increasingly complex hybrid and AI-driven environments.
This collaboration represents a long-term commitment to co-innovation, global growth, and enabling the adoption of AI tools, all while expanding support for the shared customers of 1Password and AWS. It also reflects the rising demand from enterprise organizations for secure, scalable access across cloud environments that support developers and AI agents. The new SCA also fuels global expansion and accelerates innovation in agentic AI via co-developed solutions.
1Password Extended Access Management is already available in AWS Marketplace, enabling businesses to secure every sign-in, to every app, from every device. This strategic collaboration gives 1Password even deeper alignment across the AWS ecosystem, through a secrets syncing integration with AWS that extends the reach of 1Password Extended Access Management to the world’s leading cloud platform. Admins gain new capabilities to put toward eliminating secret sprawl, simplifying cross-environment credential sharing, improving visibility, and strengthening governance, without compromising developer productivity.
A mission to solve secret sprawl and secure cloud environments
Modern organizations are driving innovation and integrating AI deeper into everyday workflows. Security leaders must rethink how to protect identities as cloud workloads, applications, and agentic AI systems multiply.
At the same time, secrets management is an increasingly fragmented and high-risk process. Secrets – such as API keys, tokens, and credentials – are the backbone of modern software. Managing them securely is essential to protecting customer data, maintaining trust, and enabling fast, confident innovation. Yet teams often struggle to keep secrets in sync across systems, environments, and contributors, leading to operational bottlenecks and secret sprawl – the uncontrolled spread of sensitive information across systems and code.
1Password’s collaboration with AWS directly addresses that challenge. By combining 1Password’s human-centric security with AWS’s leading cloud platform, development teams have a solution to deliver secrets securely, consistently, and at scale – while preparing for the next frontier of automation.
Securing the next generation of autonomous workflows and intelligent AI agents
As organizations embrace agentic AI to drive innovation, securing these autonomous systems demands a modern, identity-first approach. Without standardized identity models or security controls, companies often give AI agents hardcoded secrets or shared credentials, bypassing managed authentication methods and worsening risks related to secret sprawl.
1Password empowers customers to build AI agents securely by eliminating hardcoded secrets, enforcing least-privilege access, and delivering visibility into agent activity. 1Password provides full control over AI agent authentication and secrets access, enabling secure automation and innovation.
A new AWS Secrets Manager integration with 1Password Extended Access Management
1Password and AWS have launched an integration between 1Password Extended Access Management and AWS Secrets Manager that makes it frictionless to sync secrets across environments; with no code, SDKs, or complex setup required.
The integration is accessible through the 1Password Enterprise Password Manager (EPM) desktop app. Through 1Password, security and IT professionals are now able to:
- Manage secrets and sync them to AWS Secrets Manager – no coding or SDK configuration needed.
- Empower teams to manage scoped environments independently with built-in security controls.
This new integration is part of 1Password’s mission to help AWS customers close the widening Access-Trust Gap – the security risks from unmanaged apps and AI-powered tools that are able to access company data without proper governance or security. Whether a team is developing traditional applications or AI agents, 1Password reduces risk and complexity by consolidating secrets management and enforcing secure, scoped access to application secrets
This integration is backed by confidential computing to ensure secrets are never exposed as plaintext. Whether managing traditional apps or rapidly evolving AI systems, the integration provides teams with the fastest, most straightforward way to keep secrets safe and in sync.
Getting started with 1Password
With 1Password, teams can:
- Deliver secrets without complexity. Deliver secrets securely using only the 1Password EPM desktop app.
- Simplify secrets management. Provide an easier way to manage secrets and onboard new team members directly from the 1Password EPM desktop app.
- Streamline deployments. Ensure apps receive the latest secrets automatically and securely.
- Minimize operational bottlenecks. Provide team members with scoped, secure access to the secrets they need without lengthy approval processes.
Teams can read more about how the integration works and how to get started with AWS secrets syncing in 1Password’s companion blog post.
What’s next
The SCA with AWS isn’t just a collaboration; it’s an acknowledgment of where the world is headed, further modernizing access security for today’s cloud-first and AI-powered enterprises.
As modern organizations navigate a growing Access-Trust Gap while embracing innovations like agentic AI, 1Password and AWS will continue to work together to modernize access security to ensure that secure access is never a bottleneck, empowering productivity without compromising security.
Monica Jain
Head of Global Strategic Alliances
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