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AWS secretsmanager documentation change

Service: secretsmanager · 2025-11-22 · Documentation low

File: secretsmanager/latest/userguide/rotate-secrets_managed.md

Summary

Added documentation for managed external secrets rotation with partners and updated section headers

Security assessment

Introduces documentation for rotating third-party secrets via managed external secrets, which is a security feature but does not address a specific vulnerability.

Diff

diff --git a/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/rotate-secrets_managed.md b/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/rotate-secrets_managed.md
index c01645750..cd4d9453e 100644
--- a//secretsmanager/latest/userguide/rotate-secrets_managed.md
+++ b//secretsmanager/latest/userguide/rotate-secrets_managed.md
@@ -11 +11 @@ The following services offer managed rotation:
-  * **Amazon Aurora** offers managed rotation for master user credentials. For more information, see [Password management with Amazon Aurora and AWS Secrets Manager](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/rds-secrets-manager.html) in the _Amazon Aurora User Guide_.
+  * **Amazon Aurora** offers managed rotation for master user credentials. For more information, see [Password management with Amazon Aurora and AWS Secrets Manager](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/rds-secrets-manager.html) in the _Amazon Aurora User Guide_.
@@ -18,0 +19,2 @@ The following services offer managed rotation:
+  * **managed external secrets** offers managed rotation for secrets held by Secrets Manager partners. For more information, see [Using AWS Secrets Manager managed external secrets to manage Third Party secrets](./managed-external-secrets.html).
+
@@ -27,0 +30,2 @@ Rotation for managed secrets typically completes within one minute. During rotat
+For secrets held by Secrets Manager partners, 
+
@@ -61 +65 @@ Rotate secrets
-Rotation by Lambda function
+Rotate managed external secrets