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# Secrets Manager Overview

* Secrets Manager helps you to **securely encrypt, store, and retrieve credentials for your databases and other services**.<br>
* Instead of hardcoding credentials in your apps, you can make calls to Secrets Manager to retrieve your credentials whenever needed.<br>
* Secrets Manager **helps you protect access to your IT resources and data by enabling you to rotate and manage access to your secrets**.<br>
* It has good **integration RDS databases**.