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AWS Secrets Manager Review 2026

AWS Secrets Manager is a cloud secrets management service for centrally storing and managing credentials, API keys, and other application secrets.

Verified 22 October 2026

Facts at a glance

Starting price: Not documented
Free plan: Not documented
Free trial: Not documented
Official website: https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/
Category: Password Management Software
Last verified: 2026-10-22

Key capabilities

Best Secrets Manager for Developer Teams 2026

Developer and machine secrets	AWS Secrets Manager centrally stores credentials and API keys for applications.
Credential health and rotation	Secrets Manager supports rotation that uses a Lambda function to update supported secrets.
Documented integrations	AWS documents a Lambda function for rotating supported secrets.
Deployment and hosting	AWS describes Secrets Manager as a managed cloud service.

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Change log

22 October 2026 — Checked 15 facts including Starting price, Free plan, Free trial, Price published

AWS Secrets Manager is a cloud secrets management service for centrally storing and managing credentials, API keys, and other application secrets.

AWS Secrets Manager centrally stores credentials and API keys for applications. AWS CloudTrail records Secrets Manager API calls and rotation or secret-version deletion events.

The listed deployment is vendor-hosted, which excludes teams that must run the service on their own infrastructure.

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