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AWS secretsmanager documentation change

Service: secretsmanager · 2026-06-13 · Documentation low

File: secretsmanager/latest/userguide/best-practices.md

Summary

Replaced 'Secrets Manager Agent' reference with 'AWS Workload Credentials Provider' for secrets consumption standardization

Security assessment

The change updates a tool recommendation but doesn't address specific vulnerabilities. While credentials providers relate to security, this is a naming/documentation update without security fixes.

Diff

diff --git a/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/best-practices.md b/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/best-practices.md
index c1f64529e..9910c48e8 100644
--- a//secretsmanager/latest/userguide/best-practices.md
+++ b//secretsmanager/latest/userguide/best-practices.md
@@ -85 +85 @@ To use your secrets most efficiently, we recommend you use one of the following
-  * Use [Using the AWS Secrets Manager Agent](./secrets-manager-agent.html) to standardize consumption of secrets from Secrets Manager across environments such as AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. 
+  * Use [Using the AWS Workload Credentials Provider](./workload-credentials-provider.html) to standardize consumption of secrets from Secrets Manager across environments such as AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.