AWS Lambda: How to store secret to external API?

Question

I\'m building a monitoring tool based on AWS Lambda. Given a set of metrics, the Lambdas should be able to send SMS using Twilio API. To be able to use the API, Twilio provi

Answer 1

As of AWS Lambda support for NodeJS 4.3, the correct answer is to use Environment Variables to store sensitive information. This feature integrates with AWS KMS, so you can use your own master keys to encrypt the secrets if the default is not enough.