Privileged Access Management tools are designed to address this challenge and encompass different types of solutions used to monitor, protect, and manage those accounts. Privileged account and session management solutions provide protection by vaulting account credentials. Secretive access management tools manage credentials and secrets for software applications as well as machines and programmatically manage them through APIs and SDKs. These tools must now integrate with an ecosystem that includes Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.”]
Source: https://www.centrify.com/resources/pam-101/what-is-privileged-access-management-pam-tool/