Stop paying $0.40 per secret: cut AWS Secrets Manager cost and run secrets more efficiently
Most organisations do not have a “secrets strategy.” They have an AWS line item that grows every time someone creates another credential — and a platform team that still opens tickets to wire the next service into IAM.
AWS Secrets Manager charges $0.40 per secret, every month, plus API usage (official pricing). There is no volume discount. Forgotten secrets still bill. Cross-region replicas bill again. Copy the same logical secret into dev, staging, and prod and you pay three times.
That is not only a FinOps problem. It is an efficiency problem: two sources of truth (password manager for people, Secrets Manager for apps), cloud-locked access paths, and more glue each time you add a cluster.
We help organisations quantify that cost, redesign how secrets are delivered, migrate safely, and leave teams with an operating model that is cheaper and easier to run.