This guide documents the new AWS Wickr administration console, released on March 13, 2025. For documentation on the classic version of the AWS Wickr administration console, see [Classic Administration Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wickr/latest/adminguide-classic/what-is-wickr.html).

# Secrets Manager values for AWS Wickr
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You can use Secrets Manager to store the data retention bot credentials and AWS service information. For more information about creating a Secrets Manager secret, see [Create an AWS Secrets Manager secret ](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/create_secret.html) in the *Secrets Manager User Guide*.

The Secrets Manager secret can have the following values:
+ `password` – The data retention bot password.
+ `s3_bucket_name` – The name of the Amazon S3 bucket where messages and files will be stored. If not set, the default file streaming will be used.
+ `s3_region` – The AWS Region of the Amazon S3 bucket where messages and files will be stored.
+ `s3_folder_name` – The optional folder name in the Amazon S3 bucket where messages and files will be stored. This folder name will be preceded with the key for messages and files saved to the Amazon S3 bucket.
+ `kms_master_key_arn` – The ARN of the AWS KMS master key used to re-encrypt the message files and files on the data retention bot before they are saved to the Amazon S3 bucket.
+ `kms_region` – The AWS Region where the AWS KMS master key is located.
+ `sns_topic_arn` – The ARN of the Amazon SNS topic that you want data retention events sent to.

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Wickr. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query wickr` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).