What is AWS Secrets Manager?

AWS Secrets Manager is a service that helps you protect secrets needed to access your applications, services, and IT resources. It enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle. Secrets Manager eliminates the need to hardcode sensitive information in plain text. It provides automatic secret rotation for supported AWS services and custom rotation functions using Lambda. The service helps meet security and compliance requirements by encrypting secrets using KMS and providing fine-grained access control through IAM.