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Modifies the details of a secret, including metadata and the secret value. To change the secret value, you can also use PutSecretValue.

To change the rotation configuration of a secret, use RotateSecret instead.

To change a secret so that it is managed by another service, you need to recreate the secret in that service. See Secrets Manager secrets managed by other Amazon Web Services services.

We recommend you avoid calling UpdateSecret at a sustained rate of more than once every 10 minutes. When you call UpdateSecret to update the secret value, Secrets Manager creates a new version of the secret. Secrets Manager removes outdated versions when there are more than 100, but it does not remove versions created less than 24 hours ago. If you update the secret value more than once every 10 minutes, you create more versions than Secrets Manager removes, and you will reach the quota for secret versions.

If you include SecretString or SecretBinary to create a new secret version, Secrets Manager automatically moves the staging label AWSCURRENT to the new version. Then it attaches the label AWSPREVIOUS to the version that AWSCURRENT was removed from.

If you call this operation with a ClientRequestToken that matches an existing version's VersionId, the operation results in an error. You can't modify an existing version, you can only create a new version. To remove a version, remove all staging labels from it. See UpdateSecretVersionStage.

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

Required permissions: secretsmanager:UpdateSecret. For more information, see IAM policy actions for Secrets Manager and Authentication and access control in Secrets Manager. If you use a customer managed key, you must also have kms:GenerateDataKey and kms:Decrypt permissions on the key. For more information, see Secret encryption and decryption.

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

Headers

X-Amz-Target'secretsmanager.UpdateSecret' required

Request body

SecretIdstring required
<p>The ARN or name of the secret.</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>
ClientRequestTokenstring
<p>If you include <code>SecretString</code> or <code>SecretBinary</code>, then Secrets Manager creates a new version for the secret, and this parameter specifies the unique identifier for the new version.</p> <note> <p>If you use the Amazon Web Services CLI or one of the Amazon Web Services SDKs to call this operation, then you can leave this parameter empty. The CLI or SDK generates a random UUID for you and includes it as the value for this parameter in the request. If you don't use the SDK and instead generate a raw HTTP request to the Secrets Manager service endpoint, then you must generate a <code>ClientRequestToken</code> yourself for the new version and include the value in the request.</p> </note> <p>This value becomes the <code>VersionId</code> of the new version.</p>
Descriptionstring

The description of the secret.

KmsKeyIdstring
<p>The ARN, key ID, or alias of the KMS key that Secrets Manager uses to encrypt new secret versions as well as any existing versions with the staging labels <code>AWSCURRENT</code>, <code>AWSPENDING</code>, or <code>AWSPREVIOUS</code>. For more information about versions and staging labels, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/getting-started.html#term_version">Concepts: Version</a>.</p> <p>A key alias is always prefixed by <code>alias/</code>, for example <code>alias/aws/secretsmanager</code>. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/developerguide/alias-about.html">About aliases</a>.</p> <p>If you set this to an empty string, Secrets Manager uses the Amazon Web Services managed key <code>aws/secretsmanager</code>. If this key doesn't already exist in your account, then Secrets Manager creates it for you automatically. All users and roles in the Amazon Web Services account automatically have access to use <code>aws/secretsmanager</code>. Creating <code>aws/secretsmanager</code> can result in a one-time significant delay in returning the result. </p> <important> <p>You can only use the Amazon Web Services managed key <code>aws/secretsmanager</code> if you call this operation using credentials from the same Amazon Web Services account that owns the secret. If the secret is in a different account, then you must use a customer managed key and provide the ARN of that KMS key in this field. The user making the call must have permissions to both the secret and the KMS key in their respective accounts.</p> </important>
SecretBinarystring password
<p>The binary data to encrypt and store in the new version of the secret. We recommend that you store your binary data in a file and then pass the contents of the file as a parameter. </p> <p>Either <code>SecretBinary</code> or <code>SecretString</code> must have a value, but not both.</p> <p>You can't access this parameter in the Secrets Manager console.</p>
SecretStringstring password
<p>The text data to encrypt and store in the new version of the secret. We recommend you use a JSON structure of key/value pairs for your secret value. </p> <p>Either <code>SecretBinary</code> or <code>SecretString</code> must have a value, but not both. </p>

Response

Success

ARNstring

The ARN of the secret that was updated.

Namestring

The name of the secret that was updated.

VersionIdstring

If Secrets Manager created a new version of the secret during this operation, then <code>VersionId</code> contains the unique identifier of the new version.

Example response

{
  "ARN": "aws:arn:secretsmanager:us-west-2:123456789012:secret:MyTestDatabaseSecret-a1b2c3",
  "Name": "MyTestDatabaseSecret",
  "VersionId": "EXAMPLE1-90ab-cdef-fedc-ba987EXAMPLE"
}