AWS Secrets Manager is a secrets management service that helps you protect access to your applications, services, and IT resources.

This service enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle.

Using Secrets Manager, you can secure and manage secrets used to access resources in the AWS Cloud, on third-party services, and on premises.

Users and applications retrieve secrets with a call to Secrets Manager APIs, eliminating the need to hardcode sensitive information in plaintext.

The service is extensible to other types of secrets, including API keys and OAuth tokens.

administrators: Store and manage access to secrets securely and at scale.

Security administrators: Audit and monitor the use of secrets and rotate secrets without a risk of breaking applications.

Developers: Avoid dealing with secrets in the applications.

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