# AWS Secrets Manager Documentation

AWS Secrets Manager helps you to securely encrypt, store, and retrieve credentials for your databases and other services. Instead of hardcoding credentials in your apps, you can make calls to Secrets Manager to retrieve your credentials whenever needed. Secrets Manager helps you protect access to your IT resources and data by enabling you to rotate and manage access to your secrets.

- [User Guide](/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/): Walks you through creating and managing your secrets, retrieving them in your application, and automatically rotating them to help keep them secure.
- [API Reference](/secretsmanager/latest/apireference/): Describes all the API operations for AWS Secrets Manager. It provides sample requests, responses, and errors that can be generated.

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