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Retrieves the contents of the encrypted fields SecretString or SecretBinary from the specified version of a secret, whichever contains content.

We recommend that you cache your secret values by using client-side caching. Caching secrets improves speed and reduces your costs. For more information, see Cache secrets for your applications.

To retrieve the previous version of a secret, use VersionStage and specify AWSPREVIOUS. To revert to the previous version of a secret, call UpdateSecretVersionStage.

Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.

Required permissions: secretsmanager:GetSecretValue. If the secret is encrypted using a customer-managed key instead of the Amazon Web Services managed key aws/secretsmanager, then you also need kms:Decrypt permissions for that key. For more information, see IAM policy actions for Secrets Manager and Authentication and access control in Secrets Manager.

post/#X-Amz-Target=secretsmanager.GetSecretValue

Headers

X-Amz-Target'secretsmanager.GetSecretValue' required

Request body

SecretIdstring required
<p>The ARN or name of the secret to retrieve.</p> <p>For an ARN, we recommend that you specify a complete ARN rather than a partial ARN. See <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/troubleshoot.html#ARN_secretnamehyphen">Finding a secret from a partial ARN</a>.</p>
VersionIdstring
<p>The unique identifier of the version of the secret to retrieve. If you include both this parameter and <code>VersionStage</code>, the two parameters must refer to the same secret version. If you don't specify either a <code>VersionStage</code> or <code>VersionId</code>, then Secrets Manager returns the <code>AWSCURRENT</code> version.</p> <p>This value is typically a <a href="https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier">UUID-type</a> value with 32 hexadecimal digits.</p>
VersionStagestring
<p>The staging label of the version of the secret to retrieve. </p> <p>Secrets Manager uses staging labels to keep track of different versions during the rotation process. If you include both this parameter and <code>VersionId</code>, the two parameters must refer to the same secret version. If you don't specify either a <code>VersionStage</code> or <code>VersionId</code>, Secrets Manager returns the <code>AWSCURRENT</code> version.</p>

Response

Success

ARNstring

The ARN of the secret.

Namestring

The friendly name of the secret.

VersionIdstring

The unique identifier of this version of the secret.

SecretBinarystring password
<p>The decrypted secret value, if the secret value was originally provided as binary data in the form of a byte array. The response parameter represents the binary data as a <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648#section-4">base64-encoded</a> string.</p> <p>If the secret was created by using the Secrets Manager console, or if the secret value was originally provided as a string, then this field is omitted. The secret value appears in <code>SecretString</code> instead.</p>
SecretStringstring password
<p>The decrypted secret value, if the secret value was originally provided as a string or through the Secrets Manager console.</p> <p>If this secret was created by using the console, then Secrets Manager stores the information as a JSON structure of key/value pairs. </p>
VersionStagesSecretVersionStageType[]

A list of all of the staging labels currently attached to this version of the secret.

CreatedDatestring date-time

The date and time that this version of the secret was created. If you don't specify which version in <code>VersionId</code> or <code>VersionStage</code>, then Secrets Manager uses the <code>AWSCURRENT</code> version.

Example response

{
  "ARN": "arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-west-2:123456789012:secret:MyTestDatabaseSecret-a1b2c3",
  "CreatedDate": 1523477145.713,
  "Name": "MyTestDatabaseSecret",
  "SecretString": "{\n  \"username\":\"david\",\n  \"password\":\"EXAMPLE-PASSWORD\"\n}\n",
  "VersionId": "EXAMPLE1-90ab-cdef-fedc-ba987SECRET1",
  "VersionStages": [
    "AWSPREVIOUS"
  ]
}