Redpanda Cloud: Option for Permanently Deleting Connect Secrets

[lepagea01]

Hi,

I've been testing Redpanda for while now. I'm currently running a Redpanda Cloud managed cluster, serverless, on AWS us-east-1. When managing Connect secrets, I realized that deleted secrets are actually marked for deletion. Corresponding names cannot be reused short term. I suspect that AWS Secrets Manager is used behind the scene and that some recovery window is set. If that is indeed the case, can some of the options below be considered:

• Change the default recovery window or give the ability to set it? If I'm right, said window is currently 7 days at least.
• Not set any recovery window.
• Allow for manual purge of secrets or permanently deletion of Connect secrets, either through the UI, some CLI, or both.

Makes sense? I guess that by hosting Redpanda myself I would have more flexibility on hand but, for testing purposes and POC, Redpanda Cloud remains my preferred option.

Thanks,

[mihaitodor]

Hey @lepagea01, this repo is mostly focused around Connect itself. For Cloud issues, please use the feedback form in the bottom right and feel free to join the Community Slack where the Product team might be able to help.

PS: Converting this to a discussion as per #2026.