AWS Secrets Manager tutorials

Use the tutorials in this section to learn how to perform tasks using AWS Secrets Manager.

Tutorial: Creating and retrieving a secret

Get up and running with step-by-step instructions to create a secret and then retrieve it. This tutorial does not require a pre-configured AWS database.

Tutorial: Rotating a secret for an AWS database

Create a secret for an Amazon RDS MySQL database. Then rotate the secret used to access the database, and configure the secret to rotate on a schedule.

Tutorial: Rotating a user secret with a master secret

Use the previous tutorial's secret as a master secret that can rotate a separate user secret for an Amazon RDS MySQL database. Then rotate the user secret by signing in as the master secret and alternating users.