AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Secrets Manager is ranked #11 of 39 in secrets management tools on The Geeks Club. It runs on API, Web. There is a free plan. Paid plans start at $0.40/mo.

AWS Secrets Manager plans and pricing

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AWS Free Tier Free up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits · free plan available 6 months after account creation · credits expire within 12 months of account creation aws.amazon.com · 30 Sept 2026

Pay-as-you-go $0.40/mo usage-based $0.40 per secret per month · $0.05 per 10,000 API calls · no upfront costs or long-term contracts aws.amazon.com · 30 Sept 2026

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Free plan: No
Paid from: $0.40/mo
Secret rotation: Yes
CI/CD injection: Yes
Kubernetes integration: Yes
Deployment model: cloud
Audit logs: Yes

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AWS Secrets Manager

Purpose: AWS Secrets Manager manages access to applications, services, IT resources, database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle.
Encryption: Secrets Manager encrypts secrets at rest with AWS Key Management Service keys and transmits retrieved secrets over TLS.
Access control: AWS Identity and Access Management provides fine-grained IAM and resource-based policies for controlling access to secrets.
Automatic rotation: Secrets can be rotated on a schedule or on demand through the console, AWS SDK, or AWS CLI.
Replication: Secrets Manager can automatically replicate secrets to multiple AWS Regions and keep regional read replicas synchronized.
Programmatic retrieval: The service supports retrieving one secret or groups of secrets by names, ARNs, or tag filters, and offers client-side caching libraries.
Monitoring: Secrets Manager integrates with AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon SNS, and Amazon EventBridge for auditing, monitoring, and notifications.
Compliance: AWS lists support for compliance workloads involving DoD CC SRG IL2, IL4, and IL5, FedRAMP, HIPAA, IRAP, OSPAR, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 9001, PCI-DSS, and SOC.
Integrations: Listed AWS integrations include Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon MSK, Amazon SageMaker, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS Transfer Family.
Third-party integrations: Managed rotation integrations are listed for Salesforce, BigID, Snowflake, MongoDB Atlas, and Confluent Cloud.
Target users: AWS describes Secrets Manager as serving IT administrators, security administrators, and developers replacing hard-coded secrets in applications.
Pricing limits: Customer-managed AWS KMS keys incur current KMS charges, and automatic rotation other than managed rotation incurs AWS Lambda charges.
API and documentation: AWS publishes a Secrets Manager User Guide and API Reference, and recommends using AWS SDKs for API calls.
Managed external secrets: Managed external secrets provides predefined partner formats and Lambda-free automatic rotation for third-party credentials.
Price from: $0.40/mo

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Where it ranks on The Geeks Club

Best Secrets Management Tools in 2026#11 of 39

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aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/· checked 30 Sept 2026
aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/features/· checked 30 Sept 2026
aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/faqs/· checked 30 Sept 2026
docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/intro.h· checked 30 Sept 2026
docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/· checked 30 Sept 2026
docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/managed· checked 30 Sept 2026
aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/pricing/· checked 30 Sept 2026