Actions, resources, and condition keys for AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Secrets Manager (service prefix: secretsmanager) provides the following service-specific resources, actions, and condition context keys for use in IAM permission policies.

References:

• Learn how to configure this service.

• View a list of the API operations available for this service.

• Learn how to secure this service and its resources by using IAM permission policies.

Actions defined by AWS Secrets Manager

You can specify the following actions in the Action element of an IAM policy statement. Use policies to grant permissions to perform an operation in AWS. When you use an action in a policy, you usually allow or deny access to the API operation or CLI command with the same name. However, in some cases, a single action controls access to more than one operation. Alternatively, some operations require several different actions.

The Resource types column indicates whether each action supports resource-level permissions. If there is no value for this column, you must specify all resources ("*") in the Resource element of your policy statement. If the column includes a resource type, then you can specify an ARN of that type in a statement with that action. Required resources are indicated in the table with an asterisk (*). If you specify a resource-level permission ARN in a statement using this action, then it must be of this type. Some actions support multiple resource types. If the resource type is optional (not indicated as required), then you can choose to use one but not the other.

For details about the columns in the following table, see The actions table.

Actions	Description	Access level	Resource types (*required)	Condition keys	Dependent actions
CancelRotateSecret	Grants permission to cancel an in-progress secret rotation	Write	Secret*
				secretsmanager:SecretId secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} secretsmanager:SecretPrimaryRegion
CreateSecret	Grants permission to create a secret that stores encrypted data that can be queried and rotated	Write	Secret*
				secretsmanager:Name secretsmanager:Description secretsmanager:KmsKeyId aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key secretsmanager:AddReplicaRegions secretsmanager:ForceOverwriteReplicaSecret
DeleteResourcePolicy	Grants permission to delete the resource policy attached to a secret	Permissions management	Secret*
				secretsmanager:SecretId secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} secretsmanager:SecretPrimaryRegion
DeleteSecret	Grants permission to delete a secret	Write	Secret*
				secretsmanager:SecretId secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn secretsmanager:RecoveryWindowInDays secretsmanager:ForceDeleteWithoutRecovery secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} secretsmanager:SecretPrimaryRegion
DescribeSecret	Grants permission to retrieve the metadata about a secret, but not the encrypted data	Read	Secret*
				secretsmanager:SecretId secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} secretsmanager:SecretPrimaryRegion
GetRandomPassword	Grants permission to generate a random string for use in password creation	Read
GetResourcePolicy	Grants permission to get the resource policy attached to a secret	Read	Secret*
				secretsmanager:SecretId secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} secretsmanager:SecretPrimaryRegion
GetSecretValue	Grants permission to retrieve and decrypt the encrypted data	Read	Secret*
				secretsmanager:SecretId secretsmanager:VersionId secretsmanager:VersionStage secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} secretsmanager:SecretPrimaryRegion
ListSecretVersionIds	Grants permission to list the available versions of a secret	Read	Secret*
				secretsmanager:SecretId secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} secretsmanager:SecretPrimaryRegion
ListSecrets	Grants permission to list the available secrets	List
PutResourcePolicy	Grants permission to attach a resource policy to a secret	Permissions management	Secret*
				secretsmanager:SecretId secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} secretsmanager:BlockPublicPolicy secretsmanager:SecretPrimaryRegion
PutSecretValue	Grants permission to create a new version of the secret with new encrypted data	Write	Secret*
				secretsmanager:SecretId secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} secretsmanager:SecretPrimaryRegion
RemoveRegionsFromReplication	Grants permission to remove regions from replication	Write	Secret*
				secretsmanager:SecretId secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} secretsmanager:SecretPrimaryRegion
ReplicateSecretToRegions	Grants permission to convert an existing secret to a multi-Region secret and begin replicating the secret to a list of new regions	Write	Secret*
				secretsmanager:SecretId secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} secretsmanager:SecretPrimaryRegion secretsmanager:AddReplicaRegions secretsmanager:ForceOverwriteReplicaSecret
RestoreSecret	Grants permission to cancel deletion of a secret	Write	Secret*
				secretsmanager:SecretId secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} secretsmanager:SecretPrimaryRegion
RotateSecret	Grants permission to start rotation of a secret	Write	Secret*
				secretsmanager:SecretId secretsmanager:RotationLambdaARN secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} secretsmanager:SecretPrimaryRegion
StopReplicationToReplica	Grants permission to remove the secret from replication and promote the secret to a regional secret in the replica Region	Write	Secret*
				secretsmanager:SecretId secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} secretsmanager:SecretPrimaryRegion
TagResource	Grants permission to add tags to a secret	Tagging	Secret*
				secretsmanager:SecretId aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} secretsmanager:SecretPrimaryRegion
UntagResource	Grants permission to remove tags from a secret	Tagging	Secret*
				secretsmanager:SecretId aws:TagKeys secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} secretsmanager:SecretPrimaryRegion
UpdateSecret	Grants permission to update a secret with new metadata or with a new version of the encrypted data	Write	Secret*
				secretsmanager:SecretId secretsmanager:Description secretsmanager:KmsKeyId secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} secretsmanager:SecretPrimaryRegion
UpdateSecretVersionStage	Grants permission to move a stage from one secret to another	Write	Secret*
				secretsmanager:SecretId secretsmanager:VersionStage secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} secretsmanager:SecretPrimaryRegion
ValidateResourcePolicy	Grants permission to validate a resource policy before attaching policy	Permissions management	Secret*
				secretsmanager:SecretId secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} secretsmanager:SecretPrimaryRegion

Resource types defined by AWS Secrets Manager

The following resource types are defined by this service and can be used in the Resource element of IAM permission policy statements. Each action in the Actions table identifies the resource types that can be specified with that action. A resource type can also define which condition keys you can include in a policy. These keys are displayed in the last column of the table. For details about the columns in the following table, see The resource types table.

Resource types	ARN	Condition keys
Secret	arn:${Partition}:secretsmanager:${Region}:${Account}:secret:${SecretId}	aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn

Condition keys for AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Secrets Manager defines the following condition keys that can be used in the Condition element of an IAM policy. You can use these keys to further refine the conditions under which the policy statement applies. For details about the columns in the following table, see The condition keys table.

To view the global condition keys that are available to all services, see Available global condition keys.

Condition keys	Description	Type
aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}	Filters access by a key that is present in the request the user makes to the Secrets Manager service	String
aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Filters access by the tags associated with the resource	String
aws:TagKeys	Filters access by the list of all the tag key namespresent in the request the user makes to the Secrets Manager service	String
secretsmanager:AddReplicaRegions	Filters access by the list of Regions in which to replicate the secret	ArrayOfString
secretsmanager:BlockPublicPolicy	Filters access by whether the resource policy blocks broad AWS account access	Bool
secretsmanager:Description	Filters access by the description text in the request	String
secretsmanager:ForceDeleteWithoutRecovery	Filters access by whether the secret is to be deleted immediately without any recovery window	Bool
secretsmanager:ForceOverwriteReplicaSecret	Filters access by whether to overwrite a secret with the same name in the destination Region	Bool
secretsmanager:KmsKeyId	Filters access by the ARN of the KMS key in the request	String
secretsmanager:Name	Filters access by the friendly name of the secret in the request	String
secretsmanager:RecoveryWindowInDays	Filters access by the number of days that Secrets Manager waits before it can delete the secret	Numeric
secretsmanager:ResourceTag/tag-key	Filters access by a tag key and value pair	String
secretsmanager:RotationLambdaARN	Filters access by the ARN of the rotation Lambda function in the request	ARN
secretsmanager:SecretId	Filters access by the SecretID value in the request	ARN
secretsmanager:SecretPrimaryRegion	Filters access by primary region in which the secret is created	String
secretsmanager:VersionId	Filters access by the unique identifier of the version of the secret in the request	String
secretsmanager:VersionStage	Filters access by the list of version stages in the request	String
secretsmanager:resource/AllowRotationLambdaArn	Filters access by the ARN of the rotation Lambda function associated with the secret	ARN