Amazon Secrets Manager
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.
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API Evangelist profiles Amazon Secrets Manager the way a machine reads it — 64 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Amazon Secrets Manager scores 62.0/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 29/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
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Kin Score
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How we profile Amazon Secrets Manager
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon Secrets Manager. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 5
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
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.
Postman Collections 1
A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Amazon Secrets Manager API
POSTMANOpen Collections 7
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONAmazon Secrets Manager Passwords API
OPEN COLLECTIONAmazon Secrets Manager Passwords Rotation API
OPEN COLLECTIONAmazon Manager Passwords Secrets API
OPEN COLLECTIONAmazon Secrets Manager Passwords #TagResource API
OPEN COLLECTIONAmazon Secrets Manager Passwords #UntagResource API
OPEN COLLECTIONAmazon Secrets Manager API
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Arazzo Workflows 8
Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.
Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.
Amazon Secrets Manager Create and Read Secret
Create a new secret, then immediately retrieve its decrypted value to confirm it was stored.
ARAZZOAmazon Secrets Manager Find and Delete Secret
List secrets filtered by name, branch on whether a match exists, then describe and schedule deletion of the matched secret.
ARAZZOAmazon Secrets Manager Generate Password and Store Secret
Generate a random password, store it as a new secret, then read the secret value back to confirm it was saved.
ARAZZOAmazon Secrets Manager Restore Deleted Secret
Cancel the scheduled deletion of a secret with RestoreSecret, then describe it to confirm the DeletedDate was cleared.
ARAZZOAmazon Secrets Manager Rotate and Describe
Start rotation on a secret with a Lambda rotation function, then describe it to confirm rotation is configured.
ARAZZOAmazon Secrets Manager Put New Version and Verify
Store a new encrypted version of a secret with PutSecretValue, then read the current value to confirm the update.
ARAZZOAmazon Secrets Manager Tag Secret and Verify
Attach tags to a secret with TagResource, then describe the secret to confirm the tags are present in its metadata.
ARAZZOAmazon Secrets Manager Update Metadata and Verify
Update a secret's description and KMS key with UpdateSecret, then describe it to confirm the new metadata was applied.
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Amazon Secrets Manager Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Features 8
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Automatic Secret Rotation
Automatically rotate secrets on a schedule using AWS Lambda rotation functions without changing application code.
Centralized Secret Storage
Store and manage all secrets in a single, centralized location with fine-grained access controls.
Native Database Integration
Built-in integration with Amazon RDS, Aurora, Redshift, and DocumentDB for automatic credential rotation.
Secret Versioning
Maintain multiple versions of a secret simultaneously to support zero-downtime rotation.
Audit and Compliance
Log all secret access and management actions via AWS CloudTrail for compliance and audit purposes.
Cross-Account Access
Share secrets across AWS accounts using resource-based policies.
Encryption at Rest
All secrets are encrypted at rest using AWS KMS keys you control.
Random Password Generation
Generate cryptographically secure random passwords with configurable complexity requirements.
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Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Spectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Amazon Secrets Manager API Rules
SPECTRALAmazon Secrets Manager API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 6
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
GetRandomPasswordResponse
JSON SCHEMAListSecretsResponse
JSON SCHEMARotationRules
JSON SCHEMASecret
JSON SCHEMASecretValue
JSON SCHEMATag
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 6
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Amazon Secrets Manager List Secrets Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Secrets Manager Rotation Rules Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Secrets Manager Secret Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Secrets Manager Secret Value Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Secrets Manager Tag Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 6
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Security Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 6
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Amazon Secrets Manager — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 5
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 22
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 11
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 7
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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