How AWS AppConfig uses AWS Secrets Manager

AWS AppConfig is a capability of AWS Systems Manager that you can use to create, manage, and quickly deploy application configurations. A configuration can contain credential data or other sensitive information stored in Secrets Manager. When you create a freeform configuration profile, you can choose Secrets Manager as the source of your configuration data. For more information, see Creating a freeform configuration profile in the AWS AppConfig User Guide. For information about how AWS AppConfig handles secrets that have automatic rotation turned on, see Secrets Manager key rotation in the AWS AppConfig User Guide.