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I never heard about "ephemeral credentials" before your post. I have some Googling to do!


The other term of art is “dynamic secrets.”

https://www.vaultproject.io/use-cases/dynamic-secrets


Good lookin out, thanks for the link


It's essentially an access token with a very short expiry time.




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