# AWS Secrets Manager

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/secrets-mgmt/aws-secrets-manager/

AWS-native secrets store billed per secret per month plus per API call, integrated with IAM, Lambda and RDS.

## Who it suits

Teams already deep in AWS IAM, Lambda and RDS — the integration is native rather than bolted on, and the per-secret price is simple to reason about.

Consider something else if Secrets sprawl across many small values rather than a few large ones — at $0.40/secret/month, a service charging per identity or per seat instead can work out cheaper for a team with a handful of engineers and hundreds of individual secrets.

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: No ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/pricing/), read 2026-09-11)
- Entry paid plan: $0.40 per secret per month, plus $0.05 per 10,000 API calls. ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/pricing/), read 2026-09-11)
- Pricing model: Per-secret monthly fee plus metered API calls. Rotating a secret creates a new version but is not separately charged beyond the API calls it makes. ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/pricing/), read 2026-09-11)

### Secrets

- Secret versioning: Supported — rotating a secret automatically creates a new version, at no additional per-secret charge. ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/pricing/), read 2026-09-11)

## Compared with

- [AWS Secrets Manager vs Doppler](https://inetgeek.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-doppler/)
- [AWS Secrets Manager vs Infisical](https://inetgeek.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-infisical/)