# Amazon Secrets Manager

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-secrets-manager/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

Amazon Secrets Manager helps you manage, retrieve, and rotate database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle. It provides centralized secrets management with built-in integration for Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon DocumentDB, enabling automatic rotation of secrets without requiring application changes.

## Kin Score — 66.7 / 100 (exemplar)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 66.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 94.4 |
| Contract Quality | 67.8 |
| Governance | 41.7 |
| Contract Governance | 41.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 76.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 76.3 |
| Access Clarity | 76.3 |

## Agent readiness — 41.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (5)

- **Amazon Secrets Manager Passwords API** — Operations for generating passwords.
- **Amazon Secrets Manager Rotation API** — Operations for rotating secrets.
- **Amazon Secrets Manager Secrets API** — Operations for managing secrets.
- **Amazon Secrets Manager #TagResource API** — The #TagResource API from Amazon Secrets Manager — 1 operation(s) for #tagresource.
- **Amazon Secrets Manager #UntagResource API** — The #UntagResource API from Amazon Secrets Manager — 1 operation(s) for #untagresource.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Amazon Secrets Manager MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Secrets Manager Agentic Access** — 12 operations · 12 acting

## Security (4)

- **Amazon Secrets Manager Authentication** — aws-sigv4 · 1 scheme
- **Amazon Secrets Manager Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Amazon Secrets Manager Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Amazon Secrets Manager Trust Center** — PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon Secrets Manager Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **Database Credential Management** — Automatically rotate and manage database credentials for RDS, Aurora, and other databases.
- **API Key Storage** — Securely store and retrieve API keys, OAuth tokens, and other third-party service credentials.
- **Application Configuration** — Centralize sensitive application configuration such as connection strings and encryption keys.
- **Cross-Service Credentials** — Share service-to-service credentials securely across microservices without embedding in code.
- **Compliance Secret Rotation** — Meet compliance requirements like PCI DSS and SOC 2 by enforcing regular credential rotation.
- **Secrets Lifecycle Governance** — Enforce organizational policies on secret creation, rotation schedules, and access patterns.

## Tags

Configuration, Credentials, Rotation, Secrets, Security

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/amazon-secrets-manager/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.