Feature: Universal Secrets Sync

Automatically synchronise secrets to cloud service providers

Universal Secrets Sync (USS) makes your Keeper Vault folders the source of truth across all native cloud secrets managers, including AWS, Azure and GCP.

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Universal Secrets Sync dashboard showing active sync configurations for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud secret stores.

How Universal Secrets Sync works

USS is configured through the Keeper Vault UI or the Keeper Commander® CLI. Once active, the customer's hosted Keeper Gateway handles all sync operations with zero-knowledge encryption and full audit logs.

Toggle switch enabled for Universal Secrets Sync, illustrating activation of automated secret synchronisation between Keeper and external secrets management platforms.

1. Deploy the Keeper Gateway

Install the Keeper Gateway container on your network or VPC. The gateway acts as the bridge between Keeper and your cloud provider.

Keeper interface showing separate shared folders for Dev, Production, QA and Staging environments, illustrating how secrets and service accounts are organised by deployment environment.

2. Select your folders and target cloud destination

Choose Keeper Secrets Manager folders to sync and specify your target cloud provider and region. USS supports AWS, Azure and GCP.

Keeper interface displaying database resources for production, QA and staging environments across multiple cloud regions, each marked as new to illustrate synchronised secrets and environment-specific resource management.

3. Conduct a dry run to verify sync changes

Before writing any secrets to the cloud provider, use Dry Run Mode to preview which secrets would be created or updated.

Keeper interface showing Universal Secrets Sync enabled for a shared folder named 'Production Secrets,' with a status indicating the secrets were synchronised successfully just moments ago.

4. Enable automatic sync

Activate Automatic Sync so that any change to your configured Keeper Secrets folders is immediately pushed to the cloud provider.

Ensure secrets are centrally managed with least-privilege access

Sync secrets from multiple folders at once

Pull from several Keeper folders into each cloud destination in a single sync. Each cloud provider runs with its own configuration.

Keeper Universal Secrets Sync dashboard showing multiple shared folders—including Production Secrets, Cloud Infrastructure API Keys, Database Credentials, and Stripe API Tokens—with their most recent synchronisation times, illustrating centralised synchronisation of secrets across multiple folders at once.

Keeper Universal Secrets Sync interface showing an AWS integration connected to a shared folder with synchronised records and a 'Push Updates' option, illustrating automatic synchronisation of secrets whenever records are added or updated.

Trigger automatic syncs on every record change

Any update to a record in a configured Keeper Secrets Manager folder instantly pushes to the target cloud provider without manual intervention.

Preview the full sync scope before committing

Use Dry Run Mode to see which secrets would be created or modified before any writes reach the cloud provider.

Keeper Universal Secrets Sync Dry Run mode showing records that will be updated or created during the next synchronisation, allowing administrators to review the full sync scope before committing changes.

Keeper interface showing Universal Secrets Sync managing AWS resources across multiple regions from a single dashboard, with synchronisation status, permissions and log access for each environment.

Handle multiple regions and providers from a single UI

Keeper syncs to all your configured cloud provider regions in a single operation.

Tag every synced secret with source metadata

Secrets are automatically tagged with content type and source, making them traceable and auditable inside your cloud provider.

Metadata table showing key-value pairs automatically attached to a synchronised secret, including record type, content type, record title, source and record UID.

Quickly recover from permission and sync errors

Missing secrets and permission issues are surfaced in detail without causing the entire run to fail, so partial failures don't ruin the rest of the sync.

Use cases for Universal Secrets Sync

Eliminate secrets sprawl

Keep an authoritative copy of secrets in Keeper and let USS automate their propagation across all cloud environments, ensuring secrets stay current.

Reduce configuration drift between Keeper and cloud secret stores

Automatic sync ensures that the contents of your Keeper Secrets Manager folders are what lives in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud — without relying on manual processes.

Provision multi-region environments faster

Push secrets to every configured AWS region in a single operation, reducing provisioning time for new deployments.

Support secrets auditability for compliance readiness

Source metadata tags on every synced secret provide a transparent record of where each secret originated, supporting your audits.

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Frequently asked questions

How is Universal Secrets Sync managed and deployed?

USS is part of KeeperPAM® and is managed through either the Keeper Vault UI or the Keeper Commander CLI. The Keeper Gateway runs on your own network and handles the actual sync, authenticating to the cloud provider with your configured credentials. Secret values are processed inside your Gateway and written straight to the cloud provider — never stored on Keeper's servers.

Which cloud providers does Universal Secrets Sync support?

USS currently supports AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault and Google Cloud Secret Manager, with additional providers being added soon.

What if my secrets already live in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud?

Use our migration tools to import your existing secrets from AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault or Google Secret Manager into a Keeper folder. Review the imported records, then enable Universal Secrets Sync for that folder. From that point forward, Keeper automatically pushes any changes to the cloud.

Will Universal Secrets Sync ever modify records in my vault?

No, USS is a one-way operation. The Keeper Gateway reads secrets from specific Keeper Secrets Manager folders and pushes them to the cloud provider. Since data flows from Keeper outward only, the synchronisation process never writes back to your vault.

What happens if a permission error occurs during sync?

If a permission error or missing secret is encountered during a sync, Keeper handles it without failing the entire run and surfaces detailed error outputs. You can review the outputs to diagnose which secrets failed and why, then resolve and re-run without starting over.