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Amazon Web Services Secrets Manager
Amazon Web Services Secrets Manager provides a service to enable you to store, manage, and retrieve, secrets.
This guide provides descriptions of the Secrets Manager API. For more information about using this service, see the Amazon Web Services Secrets Manager User Guide.
api-version
API Version
This version of the Secrets Manager API Reference documents the Secrets Manager API version 2017-10-17.
For a list of endpoints, see Amazon Web Services Secrets Manager endpoints.
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Support and Feedback for Amazon Web Services Secrets Manager
We welcome your feedback. Send your comments to awssecretsmanager-feedback@amazon.com, or post your feedback and questions in the Amazon Web Services Secrets Manager Discussion Forum. For more information about the Amazon Web Services Discussion Forums, see Forums Help.
logging-api-requests
Logging API Requests
Amazon Web Services Secrets Manager supports Amazon Web Services CloudTrail, a service that records Amazon Web Services API calls for your Amazon Web Services account and delivers log files to an Amazon S3 bucket. By using information that's collected by Amazon Web Services CloudTrail, you can determine the requests successfully made to Secrets Manager, who made the request, when it was made, and so on. For more about Amazon Web Services Secrets Manager and support for Amazon Web Services CloudTrail, see Logging Amazon Web Services Secrets Manager Events with Amazon Web Services CloudTrail in the Amazon Web Services Secrets Manager User Guide. To learn more about CloudTrail, including enabling it and find your log files, see the Amazon Web Services CloudTrail User Guide.
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Functions
Retrieves the contents of the encrypted fields SecretString
or SecretBinary
for up to 20 secrets.
Turns off automatic rotation, and if a rotation is currently in progress, cancels the rotation.
Creates a new secret.
Deletes the resource-based permission policy attached to the secret.
Deletes a secret and all of its versions.
Retrieves the details of a secret.
Generates a random password.
Retrieves the JSON text of the resource-based policy document attached to the secret.
Retrieves the contents of the encrypted fields SecretString
or
SecretBinary
from the specified version of a secret, whichever contains
content.
Lists the versions of a secret.
Lists the secrets that are stored by Secrets Manager in the Amazon Web Services account, not including secrets that are marked for deletion.
Attaches a resource-based permission policy to a secret.
Creates a new version with a new encrypted secret value and attaches it to the secret.
For a secret that is replicated to other Regions, deletes the secret replicas from the Regions you specify.
Replicates the secret to a new Regions.
Cancels the scheduled deletion of a secret by removing the DeletedDate
time
stamp.
Configures and starts the asynchronous process of rotating the secret.
Removes the link between the replica secret and the primary secret and promotes the replica to a primary secret in the replica Region.
Attaches tags to a secret.
Removes specific tags from a secret.
Modifies the details of a secret, including metadata and the secret value.
Modifies the staging labels attached to a version of a secret.
Validates that a resource policy does not grant a wide range of principals access to your secret.
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Retrieves the contents of the encrypted fields SecretString
or SecretBinary
for up to 20 secrets.
To retrieve a single secret, call GetSecretValue
.
To choose which secrets to retrieve, you can specify a list of secrets by name
or ARN, or you can use filters. If Secrets Manager encounters errors such as
AccessDeniedException
while attempting to retrieve any of the secrets, you can
see the errors in Errors
in the response.
Secrets Manager generates CloudTrail GetSecretValue
log entries for each
secret you request when you call this action. Do not include sensitive
information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more
information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:BatchGetSecretValue
, and you must have
secretsmanager:GetSecretValue
for each secret. If you use filters, you must
also have secretsmanager:ListSecrets
. If the secrets are encrypted using
customer-managed keys instead of the Amazon Web Services managed key
aws/secretsmanager
, then you also need kms:Decrypt
permissions for the keys.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
Turns off automatic rotation, and if a rotation is currently in progress, cancels the rotation.
If you cancel a rotation in progress, it can leave the VersionStage
labels in an unexpected state. You might
need to remove the staging label AWSPENDING
from the partially created
version.
You also need to determine whether to roll back to the previous version of the
secret
by moving the staging label AWSCURRENT
to the version that has AWSPENDING
.
To determine
which version has a specific staging label, call ListSecretVersionIds
. Then
use
UpdateSecretVersionStage
to change staging labels.
For more information, see How rotation works.
To turn on automatic rotation again, call RotateSecret
.
Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:CancelRotateSecret
.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
Creates a new secret.
A secret can be a password, a set of credentials such as a user name and password, an OAuth token, or other secret information that you store in an encrypted form in Secrets Manager. The secret also includes the connection information to access a database or other service, which Secrets Manager doesn't encrypt. A secret in Secrets Manager consists of both the protected secret data and the important information needed to manage the secret.
For secrets that use managed rotation, you need to create the secret through the managing service. For more information, see Secrets Manager secrets managed by other Amazon Web Services services.
For information about creating a secret in the console, see Create a secret.
To create a secret, you can provide the secret value to be encrypted in either
the
SecretString
parameter or the SecretBinary
parameter, but not both.
If you include SecretString
or SecretBinary
then Secrets Manager creates an initial secret version and automatically
attaches the staging
label AWSCURRENT
to it.
For database credentials you want to rotate, for Secrets Manager to be able to
rotate the secret,
you must make sure the JSON you store in the SecretString
matches the JSON structure of
a database
secret.
If you don't specify an KMS encryption key, Secrets Manager uses the Amazon Web
Services managed key
aws/secretsmanager
. If this key
doesn't already exist in your account, then Secrets Manager creates it for you
automatically. All
users and roles in the Amazon Web Services account automatically have access to
use aws/secretsmanager
.
Creating aws/secretsmanager
can result in a one-time significant delay in
returning the
result.
If the secret is in a different Amazon Web Services account from the credentials
calling the API, then
you can't use aws/secretsmanager
to encrypt the secret, and you must create
and use a customer managed KMS key.
Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do
not include sensitive information in request parameters except SecretBinary
or
SecretString
because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with
CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:CreateSecret
. If you
include tags in the secret, you also need secretsmanager:TagResource
. To add
replica Regions, you must also have secretsmanager:ReplicateSecretToRegions
.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
To encrypt the secret with a KMS key other than aws/secretsmanager
, you need
kms:GenerateDataKey
and kms:Decrypt
permission to the key.
When you enter commands in a command shell, there is a risk of the command history being accessed or utilities having access to your command parameters. This is a concern if the command includes the value of a secret. Learn how to Mitigate the risks of using command-line tools to store Secrets Manager secrets.
Deletes the resource-based permission policy attached to the secret.
To attach a policy to
a secret, use PutResourcePolicy
.
Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:DeleteResourcePolicy
.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
Deletes a secret and all of its versions.
You can specify a recovery
window during which you can restore the secret. The minimum recovery window is 7
days.
The default recovery window is 30 days. Secrets Manager attaches a
DeletionDate
stamp to
the secret that specifies the end of the recovery window. At the end of the
recovery window,
Secrets Manager deletes the secret permanently.
You can't delete a primary secret that is replicated to other Regions. You must
first delete the
replicas using RemoveRegionsFromReplication
, and then delete the primary
secret.
When you delete a replica, it is deleted immediately.
You can't directly delete a version of a secret. Instead, you remove all staging
labels
from the version using UpdateSecretVersionStage
. This marks the version as
deprecated,
and then Secrets Manager can automatically delete the version in the background.
To determine whether an application still uses a secret, you can create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to alert you to any attempts to access a secret during the recovery window. For more information, see Monitor secrets scheduled for deletion.
Secrets Manager performs the permanent secret deletion at the end of the waiting period as a background task with low priority. There is no guarantee of a specific time after the recovery window for the permanent delete to occur.
At any time before recovery window ends, you can use RestoreSecret
to
remove the DeletionDate
and cancel the deletion of the secret.
When a secret is scheduled for deletion, you cannot retrieve the secret value.
You must first cancel the deletion with RestoreSecret
and then you can
retrieve the secret.
Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:DeleteSecret
.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
Retrieves the details of a secret.
It does not include the encrypted secret value. Secrets Manager only returns fields that have a value in the response.
Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:DescribeSecret
.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
Generates a random password.
We recommend that you specify the
maximum length and include every character type that the system you are
generating a password
for can support. By default, Secrets Manager uses uppercase and lowercase
letters, numbers, and the following characters in passwords:
!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_
{|}~Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. ## Required permissions:
secretsmanager:GetRandomPassword`.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
Retrieves the JSON text of the resource-based policy document attached to the secret.
For more information about permissions policies attached to a secret, see Permissions policies attached to a secret.
Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:GetResourcePolicy
.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
Retrieves the contents of the encrypted fields SecretString
or
SecretBinary
from the specified version of a secret, whichever contains
content.
To retrieve the values for a group of secrets, call BatchGetSecretValue
.
We recommend that you cache your secret values by using client-side caching. Caching secrets improves speed and reduces your costs. For more information, see Cache secrets for your applications.
To retrieve the previous version of a secret, use VersionStage
and specify
AWSPREVIOUS. To revert to the previous version of a secret, call
UpdateSecretVersionStage. Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do
not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be
logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with
CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:GetSecretValue
.
If the secret is encrypted using a customer-managed key instead of the Amazon
Web Services managed key
aws/secretsmanager
, then you also need kms:Decrypt
permissions for that key.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
Lists the versions of a secret.
Secrets Manager uses staging labels to indicate the different versions of a secret. For more information, see Secrets Manager concepts: Versions.
To list the secrets in the account, use ListSecrets
.
Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:ListSecretVersionIds
.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
Lists the secrets that are stored by Secrets Manager in the Amazon Web Services account, not including secrets that are marked for deletion.
To see secrets marked for deletion, use the Secrets Manager console.
All Secrets Manager operations are eventually consistent. ListSecrets might not
reflect changes from the last five minutes. You can get more recent information
for a specific secret by calling DescribeSecret
.
To list the versions of a secret, use ListSecretVersionIds
.
To retrieve the values for the secrets, call BatchGetSecretValue
or
GetSecretValue
.
For information about finding secrets in the console, see Find secrets in Secrets Manager.
Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:ListSecrets
.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
Attaches a resource-based permission policy to a secret.
A resource-based policy is optional. For more information, see Authentication and access control for Secrets Manager
For information about attaching a policy in the console, see Attach a permissions policy to a secret.
Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:PutResourcePolicy
.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
Creates a new version with a new encrypted secret value and attaches it to the secret.
The
version can contain a new SecretString
value or a new SecretBinary
value.
We recommend you avoid calling PutSecretValue
at a sustained rate of more than
once every 10 minutes. When you update the secret value, Secrets Manager creates
a new version
of the secret. Secrets Manager removes outdated versions when there are more
than 100, but it does not
remove versions created less than 24 hours ago. If you call PutSecretValue
more
than once every 10 minutes, you create more versions than Secrets Manager
removes, and you will reach
the quota for secret versions.
You can specify the staging labels to attach to the new version in
VersionStages
.
If you don't include VersionStages
, then Secrets Manager automatically
moves the staging label AWSCURRENT
to this version. If this operation creates
the first version for the secret, then Secrets Manager
automatically attaches the staging label AWSCURRENT
to it.
If this operation moves the staging label AWSCURRENT
from another version to
this
version, then Secrets Manager also automatically moves the staging label
AWSPREVIOUS
to
the version that AWSCURRENT
was removed from.
This operation is idempotent. If you call this operation with a
ClientRequestToken
that matches an existing version's VersionId, and you specify the
same secret data, the operation succeeds but does nothing. However, if the
secret data is
different, then the operation fails because you can't modify an existing
version; you can
only create new ones.
Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do
not include sensitive information in request parameters except SecretBinary
,
SecretString
, or RotationToken
because it might be logged. For more
information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:PutSecretValue
.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
When you enter commands in a command shell, there is a risk of the command history being accessed or utilities having access to your command parameters. This is a concern if the command includes the value of a secret. Learn how to Mitigate the risks of using command-line tools to store Secrets Manager secrets.
For a secret that is replicated to other Regions, deletes the secret replicas from the Regions you specify.
Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:RemoveRegionsFromReplication
.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
Replicates the secret to a new Regions.
See Multi-Region secrets.
Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:ReplicateSecretToRegions
.
If the primary secret is encrypted with a KMS key other than
aws/secretsmanager
, you also need kms:Decrypt
permission to the key. To
encrypt the replicated secret with a KMS key other than aws/secretsmanager
,
you need kms:GenerateDataKey
and kms:Encrypt
to the key. For more
information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
Cancels the scheduled deletion of a secret by removing the DeletedDate
time
stamp.
You can access a secret again after it has been restored.
Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:RestoreSecret
.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
Configures and starts the asynchronous process of rotating the secret.
For information about rotation, see Rotate secrets in the Secrets Manager User Guide. If you include the configuration parameters, the operation sets the values for the secret and then immediately starts a rotation. If you don't include the configuration parameters, the operation starts a rotation with the values already stored in the secret.
When rotation is successful, the AWSPENDING
staging label might be attached
to the same version as the AWSCURRENT
version, or it might not be attached to
any
version. If the AWSPENDING
staging label is present but not attached to the
same
version as AWSCURRENT
, then any later invocation of RotateSecret
assumes that a previous rotation request is still in progress and returns an
error. When rotation is unsuccessful, the AWSPENDING
staging label might be
attached to an empty secret version. For more information, see Troubleshoot rotation
in the Secrets Manager User Guide.
Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:RotateSecret
.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
You also need lambda:InvokeFunction
permissions on the rotation function.
For more information, see
Permissions for
rotation.
Removes the link between the replica secret and the primary secret and promotes the replica to a primary secret in the replica Region.
You must call this operation from the Region in which you want to promote the replica to a primary secret.
Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:StopReplicationToReplica
.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
Attaches tags to a secret.
Tags consist of a key name and a value. Tags are part of the secret's metadata. They are not associated with specific versions of the secret. This operation appends tags to the existing list of tags.
For tag quotas and naming restrictions, see Service quotas for Tagging in the Amazon Web Services General Reference guide.
If you use tags as part of your security strategy, then adding or removing a tag can change permissions. If successfully completing this operation would result in you losing your permissions for this secret, then the operation is blocked and returns an Access Denied error.
Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:TagResource
.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
Removes specific tags from a secret.
This operation is idempotent. If a requested tag is not attached to the secret, no error is returned and the secret metadata is unchanged.
If you use tags as part of your security strategy, then removing a tag can change permissions. If successfully completing this operation would result in you losing your permissions for this secret, then the operation is blocked and returns an Access Denied error.
Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:UntagResource
.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
Modifies the details of a secret, including metadata and the secret value.
To change the secret value, you can also use PutSecretValue
.
To change the rotation configuration of a secret, use RotateSecret
instead.
To change a secret so that it is managed by another service, you need to recreate the secret in that service. See Secrets Manager secrets managed by other Amazon Web Services services.
We recommend you avoid calling UpdateSecret
at a sustained rate of more than
once every 10 minutes. When you call UpdateSecret
to update the secret value,
Secrets Manager creates a new version
of the secret. Secrets Manager removes outdated versions when there are more
than 100, but it does not
remove versions created less than 24 hours ago. If you update the secret value
more
than once every 10 minutes, you create more versions than Secrets Manager
removes, and you will reach
the quota for secret versions.
If you include SecretString
or SecretBinary
to create a new
secret version, Secrets Manager automatically moves the staging label
AWSCURRENT
to the new
version. Then it attaches the label AWSPREVIOUS
to the version that AWSCURRENT
was removed from.
If you call this operation with a ClientRequestToken
that matches an existing
version's
VersionId
, the operation results in an error. You can't modify an existing
version, you can only create a new version. To remove a version, remove all
staging labels from it. See
UpdateSecretVersionStage
.
Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do
not include sensitive information in request parameters except SecretBinary
or
SecretString
because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with
CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:UpdateSecret
.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
If you use a customer managed key, you must also have kms:GenerateDataKey
,
kms:Encrypt
, and
kms:Decrypt
permissions on the key. If you change the KMS key and you don't
have kms:Encrypt
permission to the new key, Secrets Manager does not
re-encrypt existing secret versions with the new key. For more information, see
Secret encryption and
decryption.
When you enter commands in a command shell, there is a risk of the command history being accessed or utilities having access to your command parameters. This is a concern if the command includes the value of a secret. Learn how to Mitigate the risks of using command-line tools to store Secrets Manager secrets.
Modifies the staging labels attached to a version of a secret.
Secrets Manager uses staging labels to track a version as it progresses through the secret rotation process. Each staging label can be attached to only one version at a time. To add a staging label to a version when it is already attached to another version, Secrets Manager first removes it from the other version first and then attaches it to this one. For more information about versions and staging labels, see Concepts: Version.
The staging labels that you specify in the VersionStage
parameter are added
to the existing list of staging labels for the version.
You can move the AWSCURRENT
staging label to this version by including it in
this
call.
Whenever you move AWSCURRENT
, Secrets Manager automatically moves the label
AWSPREVIOUS
to the version that AWSCURRENT
was removed from.
If this action results in the last label being removed from a version, then the version is considered to be 'deprecated' and can be deleted by Secrets Manager.
Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:UpdateSecretVersionStage
.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.
Validates that a resource policy does not grant a wide range of principals access to your secret.
A resource-based policy is optional for secrets.
The API performs three checks when validating the policy:
* Sends a call to Zelkova, an automated reasoning engine, to ensure your resource policy does not allow broad access to your secret, for example policies that use a wildcard for the principal.
* Checks for correct syntax in a policy.
* Verifies the policy does not lock out a caller.
Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.
required-permissions
Required permissions:
secretsmanager:ValidateResourcePolicy
and secretsmanager:PutResourcePolicy
.
For more information, see
IAM policy actions for Secrets
Manager
and Authentication and access control in Secrets
Manager.