Available worldwide
What is AWS Secrets Manager?
AWS Secrets Manager helps you encrypt, manage, and retrieve secrets throughout their lifecycle. Enables automatic rotation, centralized storage, and fine-grained access control for credentials, API keys, and other sensitive data.
AWS Secrets Manager pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Usage-based pricing. Free tier available for 6 months with $200 credits for new customers. No upfront costs or contracts.
Pay-as-you-go
- Rotate secrets automatically
- Replicate secrets for disaster recovery
- Fine-grained IAM access control
- Audit and monitor secret usage
- Integration with AWS logging and monitoring services
What AWS Secrets Manager does
The capabilities that matter for secrets management tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Tool type
- Secret store / engine
- Dynamic (short-lived) secrets
- ✓
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- Automatic secret rotation
- ✓
- Encryption as a service (transit)
- -
- FIPS 140-2/3 validated crypto
- -
- HSM support
- -
- Fine-grained / identity-based policy
- ✓
- Audit logging
- ✓
- Kubernetes native (CRD / CSI / K8s auth)
- -
- PKI / certificate authority
- -
- Open-source core
- -
- CNCF maturity
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
AWS Secrets Manager alternatives
Other secrets management tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for AWS Secrets Manager, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 50 | 0.10 | 5.3 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 0.07 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 20 | 0.23 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 80 | 0.06 | 4.6 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 0.05 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"cloud","tool_type":"store","audit_logging":true,"dynamic_secrets":true,"secret_rotation":true,"fine_grained_policy":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | {"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]} | highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |