AWS Secrets Manager is designed to safeguard the secrets necessary for accessing your applications, services, and IT resources. This service simplifies the processes of rotating, managing, and retrieving database credentials, API keys, and other sensitive information throughout their entire lifecycle. Through calls to the Secrets Manager APIs, users and applications can access secrets, which prevents the necessity of embedding sensitive data in plain text. Moreover, Secrets Manager features secret rotation with native integration for services like Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon DocumentDB. The extensibility of the service also allows for the management of various other types of secrets, such as API keys and OAuth tokens. Additionally, it provides fine-grained permissions to control access to these secrets and facilitates centralized auditing of secret rotation across AWS Cloud resources, third-party services, and on-premises systems. By enabling safe rotation of secrets without requiring code deployments, AWS Secrets Manager effectively helps organizations fulfill their security and compliance mandates. Overall, this service enhances the management of sensitive information, making it an essential tool for modern application security.