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Secrets Manager Get Secret Value

Retrieves the contents of the encrypted fields SecretString or SecretBinary from the specified version of a secret, whichever contains content.

Minimum permissions

To run this command, you must have the following permissions:

  • secretsmanager:GetSecretValue

  • kms:Decrypt - required only if you use a customer-managed Amazon Web Services KMS key to encrypt the secret. You do not need this permission to use the account's default Amazon Web Services managed CMK for Secrets Manager.

Related operations

  • To create a new version of the secret with different encrypted information, use PutSecretValue.

  • To retrieve the non-encrypted details for the secret, use DescribeSecret.

External Documentation

To learn more, visit the AWS documentation.

Basic Parameters​

ParameterDescription
AWS Region(s)Enter the desired AWS Region(s).

To execute the action in multiple regions, provide a comma-separated list.
For example: us-east-1,eu-west-2.

If you wish to run the action in all available regions, use the asterisk symbol (*) instead.
Secret IDSpecifies the secret containing the version that you want to retrieve.
You can specify either the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) or the friendly name of the secret.
If you specify an ARN, we generally recommend that you specify a complete ARN.
You can specify a partial ARN too—for example, if you don’t include the final hyphen and six random characters that Secrets Manager adds at the end of the ARN when you created the secret.
A partial ARN match can work as long as it uniquely matches only one secret.
However, if your secret has a name that ends in a hyphen followed by six characters (before Secrets Manager adds the hyphen and six characters to the ARN) and you try to use that as a partial ARN, then those characters cause Secrets Manager to assume that you’re specifying a complete ARN.
This confusion can cause unexpected results. To avoid this situation, we recommend that you don’t create secret names ending with a hyphen followed by six characters.
If you specify an incomplete ARN without the random suffix, and instead provide the 'friendly name', you must not include the random suffix.
If you do include the random suffix added by Secrets Manager, you receive either a ResourceNotFoundException or an AccessDeniedException error, depending on your permissions.
Version IDSpecifies the unique identifier of the version of the secret that you want to retrieve.
If you specify both this parameter and VersionStage, the two parameters must refer to the same secret version.
If you don't specify either a VersionStage or VersionId then the default is to perform the operation on the version with the VersionStage value of AWSCURRENT.
This value is typically a UUID-type (https:wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier) value with 32 hexadecimal digits.
Version StageSpecifies the secret version that you want to retrieve by the staging label attached to the version.
Staging labels are used to keep track of different versions during the rotation process.
If you specify both this parameter and VersionId, the two parameters must refer to the same secret version.
If you don't specify either a VersionStage or VersionId, then the default is to perform the operation on the version with the VersionStage value of AWSCURRENT.

Advanced Parameters​

ParameterDescription
Disable XML To JSON Auto ConvertWhen checked, XML responses are not automatically converted into JSON format.

Example Output​

{
    "ARN": "arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-west-2:123456789012:secret:MyTestDatabaseSecret-a1b2c3",
    "CreatedDate": 1523477145.713,
    "Name": "MyTestDatabaseSecret",
    "SecretString": "{\n  \"username\":\"david\",\n  \"password\":\"BnQw\u0026XDWgaEeT9XGTT29\"\n}\n",
    "VersionId": "EXAMPLE1-90ab-cdef-fedc-ba987SECRET1",
    "VersionStages": [
        "AWSPREVIOUS"
    ]
}

Automation Library Example​

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