FAQ
How many cloud accounts, secrets, and users can mierabella manage?
mierabella can easily scale up to tens of thousands of secrets and hundreds of users.
Will mierabella impact my AWS bills?
The infrastructure used by mierabella scales with its usage, and so does the cost. A base installation with limited use would cost under $1 USD a month.
If mierabella is self-hosted, do I need to manage a complex system?
mierabella was designed from the ground up to be built on serverless technologies that don’t need administration. The services that drive mierabella are all highly available and scalable, with AWS ensuring the operation of the infrastructure.
There is no infrastructure to patch or backup, and you don’t need to worry about infrastructure capacity and performance. mierabella uses the following AWS technology to deliver its services:
- Lambda for compute
- DynamoDB for storage
- APIGateway for API endpoints
- S3 and Cloudfront for UI delivery
- Cognito for access control
Why is mierabella only available as a self-hosted solution?
Secrets are at the heart of all infrastructure services and one of the most critical aspects of any solution. While every effort can be made by a third-party SaaS provider to secure your data, it still requires your secrets to be stored outside your perimeter. We don’t think that’s a risk you should take.
mierabella allows you to contain all data within your network edge and be 100% confident you have full data sovereignty.
Is mierabella a password manager or secrets vault?
No, mierabella doesn’t store any secrets, it wraps the existing cloud vault services in a layer of access control, content policies, governance, and user interface.
mierabella is designed to ensure you can continue using the cloud services such as AWS Secrets Manager, while also improving the capabilities of those services.
Is mierabella the same as a privileged access management (PAM)?
No, a PAM provides a layer of protection between users and systems that require privileged access to a resource.
While a PAM can be used to control access to resources such as Amazon Web Services Secrets, Parameter store or Azure key Vaults, it is not focused on the way that data is accessed or what that data is.
mierabella is content aware and provides a user interface that assists users in editing that content. In addition to ensuring content aligns with policies, mierabella provides additional controls on top of those provided by native services. mierabella also provides auditing and governance capability to ensure that secrets in cloud accounts align with expectations and policies.