# Secrets Manager

## Icon

![Secrets Manager](https://icon.icepanel.io/AWS/svg/Security-Identity-Compliance/Secrets-Manager.svg)

## About

* Newer service to store secrets.
* Capability to force secrets rotation unlike `SM Parameter Store`.
* Using lambda, can automate the secrets rotation.
* Seemless integration with Amazon `RDS` and other services.
* Secrets can be encrypted with KMS.

### Multi-Region secrets

* Replicate secrets across multiple AWS region.
* Keeps read replicas in sync with primary secret.
* Ability to promote read replica as standalone.
* This allows to configure DR strategies of secret manager.
