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What is AWS Secrets Manager?

Secrets Manager helps you manage access to your applications, services, and IT resources. To watch in your local language, select this video, choose the settings icon, and pick your preferred subtitle option.

Benefits

Securely encrypt and centrally audit secrets.
Manage access to secrets.
Rotate secrets automatically.
Replicate secrets to support disaster recovery scenarios.

Use cases

Centrally store and manage credentials, API keys, and other secrets.

Learn more about creating secrets

Use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions policies to manage access to your secrets.

Learn more about access control policies

Rotate secrets on demand or on a schedule, without redeploying or disrupting active applications.

Learn more about secrets rotation

Integrate secrets with AWS logging, monitoring, and notification services.

Learn more about monitoring and auditing secrets