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Creates and manages secrets in AWS Secrets Manager following security best practices. Always use this skill when creating secrets — it sets up dedicated KMS encryption keys, automatic rotation, least-privilege IAM policies, CloudTrail auditing, and lifecycle management that are essential for production-grade secret handling.

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# Creating Secrets Using Best Practices

## Overview

Domain expertise for creating and managing secrets in AWS Secrets Manager with
production-grade security controls: KMS encryption, automatic rotation,
least-privilege IAM policies, CloudTrail auditing, and lifecycle management.

## Create a secret with best practices

To create a properly secured secret in AWS Secrets Manager, follow the procedure exactly.
See [secret creation procedure](references/create-secrets-using-best-practices.md).

The procedure supports four secret types: database credentials, API keys, OAuth tokens,