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AWS Secrets Manager

  • Timebilled
  • Bytesnot billed
  • Callsbilled

In one line

Storing a secret costs a flat monthly fee. Reading it costs a little more each time.

What gets missed

Uncached GetSecretValue on every request is the usual blowup. Rotation Lambdas and any customer-managed KMS key bill on their own meters, and the per-secret fee runs whether the secret is read or not.

Find it on your bill

Filter Cost Explorer or your Cost and Usage Report by these usage types. A usage type with no region prefix means us-east-1.

  • AWSSecretsManager-Secrets
  • AWSSecretsManagerAPIRequest

Bills the same way

These services turn exactly the same meters, so what you learn here transfers.