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      "vendorUrl": "https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/",
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      "summary": "Managed secrets store priced per secret and per API call, with IAM for access, KMS for encryption, CloudTrail for audit, cross-region replication and rotation either managed (RDS, Aurora, DocumentDB, Redshift) or by a Lambda function you own.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aws-secrets-manager",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aws-secrets-manager.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aws-secrets-manager.min.md",
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          "registry": "pypi",
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      "authNotes": "SigV4-signed requests with AWS credentials. On AWS compute the runtime gets short-lived credentials from an IAM role; elsewhere it needs AWS credentials of its own. The caller needs secretsmanager:GetSecretValue and, for a customer-managed KMS key, kms:Decrypt. Resource policies on a secret can grant cross-account access.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "$0.40 per secret a month and $0.05 per 10,000 API calls, with no charge for the new versions rotation creates. New AWS customers since 15 July 2025 get up to $200 of Free Tier credit usable on Secrets Manager ($100 at signup and up to $100 more), on a free plan of up to 6 months, and all credits expire within 12 months. AWS says most new customers can sign up without a payment method, though it may ask for one to verify identity, and a free-plan account is suspended at the end of the plan unless upgraded to paid (https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/pricing/, https://aws.amazon.com/free/free-tier-faqs/).",
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          "confidence": "medium",
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        "verdict": "IAM roles support access without long-lived credentials on AWS compute services. Each API call is billed, making caching relevant to frequent reads.",
        "bestFor": "Agents running on AWS compute that should read credentials through a role with no key at all, and for RDS-family databases that need managed rotation.",
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          "IAM roles on EC2, ECS, Lambda and EKS mean no long-lived credential in the agent",
          "Published quotas, 10,000 reads a second per region, and a 99.99% SLA",
          "Idempotent writes on ClientRequestToken and immutable versions",
          "CloudTrail entry for every call, and KMS encryption with your own key if you want",
          "llms.txt for the user guide and typed service models in every AWS SDK"
        ],
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          "Every API call is billed, so per-request reads add up and the docs push you to cache",
          "Rotation outside the RDS family means writing and running a Lambda function",
          "Off-AWS agents need AWS credentials of their own, often a static access key",
          "No Secrets Manager MCP server, and AWS's general MCP servers can put secret values in context unless its best-effort hook blocks the call",
          "Account creation needs a person in a browser, with no keyless or x402 route, and the aws.amazon.com security.txt expired on 24 September 2026"
        ],
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          "Give the agent's task or instance role secretsmanager:GetSecretValue on the specific secret ARN, not a wildcard",
          "Cache the value for the run, or read through the Workload Credentials Provider on localhost; each GetSecretValue is billed and logged",
          "In Claude Code or Codex, install the aws-core plugin from the Agent Toolkit for AWS and pass secrets as {{resolve:secretsmanager:...}} references through asm-exec so values stay out of context",
          "Pass a ClientRequestToken on PutSecretValue so a retry can't create a second version, and don't write more than once every 10 minutes",
          "Read VersionStage AWSPREVIOUS if a rotation lands mid-run and the new credential isn't live yet"
        ],
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        },
        "provenanceScore": 88
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      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install boto3   # or: npm i @aws-sdk/client-secrets-manager",
        "http": "curl -X POST \"https://secretsmanager.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/\" \\\n  --aws-sigv4 \"aws:amz:us-east-1:secretsmanager\" --user \"$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID:$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"X-Amz-Target: secretsmanager.GetSecretValue\" -H \"Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1\" \\\n  -d '{\"SecretId\":\"prod/myapp/db\"}'"
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/secrets.store",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/aws-secrets-manager"
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        "amazon-transcribe",
        "amazon-polly",
        "aws-mcp-servers",
        "amazon-ses",
        "amazon-location",
        "amazon-translate",
        "amazon-ads-api"
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          "item": "Stored secret",
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          "item": "API calls",
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          "usd": 0.005,
          "note": "$0.05 per 10,000 calls"
        }
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        "legalEntity": "Amazon Web Services, Inc. (Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL and other regional entities by account location)",
        "domain": "amazon.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1994-11-01",
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        "terms": "https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/",
        "privacy": "https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status",
        "changelog": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/document-history.html",
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          "Service Terms show Last Updated 1 October 2026 (15 September on the 1 October check). The entities named, Amazon Web Services, Inc. for most customers and regional entities for Australia, Japan, Korea, EMEA and India, are per the 1 October check, not re-read on 4 October. The privacy notice date (18 May 2026) and address (410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109-5210) are per the 30 September check, not re-read on 4 October.",
          "security.txt still shows Expires 2026-09-24T16:25:03Z on 4 October 2026. It points to the AWS VDP on HackerOne and the policy at vdp.aws.security.",
          "The pricing page loaded on 4 October 2026 and confirms $0.40 a secret a month and $0.05 per 10,000 calls.",
          "The changelog address used on 1 October (doc-history.html) still fails with too many redirects; the user guide's document history loads at document-history.html, newest entry 2 June 2026. The newest Secrets Manager API model change in botocore is still from 11 December 2025, as of botocore 1.43.108 (2 October 2026).",
          "health.aws.amazon.com/health/status is a JavaScript page; the per-service RSS feed for Secrets Manager in us-east-1 had no items on 4 October 2026."
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        "score": 88
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    "answer": "AWS Secrets Manager scores 77.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Pulumi ESC's 71.1 (BB), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Pulumi ESC leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.",
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      "slug": "pulumi-esc",
      "name": "Pulumi ESC",
      "vendor": "Pulumi Corporation",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.pulumi.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "secrets",
      "summary": "Pulumi ESC is the secrets and configuration service in Pulumi Cloud. Environments hold static secrets, pull from other vaults and issue short-lived cloud credentials over OIDC, read through the Pulumi CLI, a REST API and four SDKs.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pulumi-esc",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pulumi-esc.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pulumi-esc.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pulumi-esc.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/pulumi/esc-sdk",
      "license": "Proprietary service under Pulumi's Terms \u0026 Conditions. The Pulumi CLI, the ESC evaluator and the ESC SDKs are Apache-2.0",
      "transports": [
        "http"
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      "remoteUrl": "https://api.pulumi.com",
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          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "pulumi-esc-sdk"
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        {
          "registry": "go",
          "name": "github.com/pulumi/esc-sdk/sdk"
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      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Self-serve. Every request sends `Authorization: token \u003ctoken\u003e` to https://api.pulumi.com. A personal token comes from the console and carries all of the user's permissions. Organisation tokens (Essentials and above) and team tokens (Pro and above) are machine tokens that take a role, and custom roles with environment scopes need Pro. A workload on a registered OIDC issuer (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, EKS, GKE and others) exchanges its ID token for a short-lived Pulumi token with `pulumi login --oidc-token` or POST /api/oauth/token. Under an agent with no credentials the CLI creates an ephemeral account by itself.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free edition with 25 secrets and 10,000 API calls a month for one user, no card. Essentials is $40 a month, Pro $400 and Enterprise $2,000, each including that many credits, with a managed secret at $0.50, $0.75 or $1.00 a month and API calls at $0.10 per 10,000. An agent can start with no contract through the free edition or an agent account (https://www.pulumi.com/pricing/, checked 2026-10-08).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.01 / 1k req",
      "where": "hosted",
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        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the ESC docs, the OpenAPI document or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).",
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      "docsUrl": "https://www.pulumi.com/docs/esc/",
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      "openapi": "https://api.pulumi.com/api/openapi/pulumi-spec.json",
      "capabilities": [
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        "secrets.machine-identity",
        "secrets.audit"
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        "go",
        "dotnet",
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        "enterprise"
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          "payments": 55,
          "reliability": 60,
          "schema": 82,
          "security": 79,
          "transparency": 65
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          "tasks"
        ],
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          "date": "2026-10-08"
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        "bestFor": "Teams already on Pulumi, or anyone who wants one place that composes static secrets, other vaults and short-lived cloud credentials, and agents that need to start with no signup.",
        "strengths": [
          "The Pulumi CLI creates a free ephemeral account for an agent with no signup, with write access for 72 hours and 30 days to claim it",
          "Public OpenAPI 3.0.3 document with 127 ESC operations, an llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page",
          "OIDC issuers exchange a workload's ID token for a short-lived Pulumi token, 25 hours at most by default",
          "Separate read, open and write scopes per environment, with open approvals and update approvals on Pro and Enterprise",
          "Prices published per unit, $0.50 a secret a month on Essentials and $0.10 per 10,000 API calls, with a free edition and no card"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Audit logs, custom roles, team tokens, approvals and customer-managed keys need Pro ($400 a month) or Enterprise",
          "No API rate limit with numbers was found in the reviewed documentation",
          "No public data processing addendum or subprocessor list was found, and the terms and privacy statement carry no date",
          "The official Pulumi MCP server lists no ESC tools, and the standalone esc CLI was retired at v0.26.0 on 9 July 2026",
          "A 42-minute major incident on 6 October 2026 affected inbound OIDC on the API and ESC, with no detail published",
          "The free edition has personal tokens only, which carry all of the user's permissions"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Use `pulumi env`, not `esc`. The standalone CLI stopped at v0.26.0 and gets no security fixes",
          "Read one value with `pulumi env open \u003corg\u003e/\u003cproject\u003e/\u003cenv\u003e \u003cproperty path\u003e` so the whole environment doesn't enter context",
          "Run tools with `pulumi env run \u003cenv\u003e -- \u003ccmd\u003e`, which filters secret values from the command's output unless -i is set",
          "Set PULUMI_ACCESS_TOKEN for the SDKs. From 0.14.0 they no longer read the CLI login on disk",
          "Send `Authorization: token \u003ctoken\u003e` and `Accept: application/vnd.pulumi+8` on REST calls, and expect 409 when an environment changed since it was read",
          "Relay the claim link an agent account prints. The account goes read-only after 72 hours and locks after 30 days unclaimed"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "BB",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 71.1
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
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          "maintenance": 82,
          "payments": 55,
          "reliability": 60,
          "schema": 82,
          "security": 79,
          "transparency": 48
        },
        "provenanceScore": 82
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "curl -fsSL https://get.pulumi.com | sh",
        "http": "curl -H \"Authorization: token $PULUMI_ACCESS_TOKEN\" \\\n     -H \"Accept: application/vnd.pulumi+8\" \\\n     https://api.pulumi.com/api/user"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/secrets.store",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/pulumi-esc"
      },
      "area": "agent-runtime",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "ESC API calls",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.01,
          "note": "$0.10 per 10,000. First 10,000 a month free on the free edition"
        },
        {
          "item": "Essentials edition",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 40,
          "note": "Includes 40 credits. A managed secret is $0.50 a month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pro edition",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 400,
          "note": "Includes 400 credits. A managed secret is $0.75 a month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Enterprise edition",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 2000,
          "note": "Includes 2,000 credits. A managed secret is $1.00 a month"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Pulumi Corporation",
        "domain": "pulumi.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2017-02-13",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.pulumi.com/terms-and-conditions/",
        "privacy": "https://www.pulumi.com/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.pulumi.com",
        "changelog": "https://www.pulumi.com/releases/changelog/",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-08",
        "notes": [
          "The Terms \u0026 Conditions govern use of the Pulumi Services and name Pulumi Corporation, 601 Union St., Suite 1415, Seattle, WA 98101, with Washington law and King County courts. We found no date on the page.",
          "The privacy statement covers customers who register to use the services and gives privacy@pulumi.com as contact. We found no date on the page.",
          "www.pulumi.com/.well-known/security.txt and www.pulumi.com/security.txt both return 404. The security page gives security@pulumi.com and a PGP key.",
          "status.pulumi.com is Atlassian Statuspage with an ESC component. Its incident feed goes back to October 2023.",
          "No data processing addendum or subprocessor list was found on www.pulumi.com. The addresses we tried returned 404 and the sitemap lists neither.",
          "RDAP for pulumi.com gives a registration date of 2017-02-13."
        ],
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      },
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pulumi-esc.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pulumi-esc.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### AWS Secrets Manager (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents running on AWS compute that should read credentials through a role with no key at all, and for RDS-family databases that need managed rotation.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 77 against 60\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 96 against 82\n- Agent ergonomics, 90 against 75\n- Security \u0026 auth, 91 against 79\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 77 against 65\n\nWatch for: Every API call is billed, so per-request reads add up and the docs push you to cache\n\n### Pulumi ESC (BB)\n\nGood for: Teams already on Pulumi, or anyone who wants one place that composes static secrets, other vaults and short-lived cloud credentials, and agents that need to start with no signup.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 55 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 65\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: Audit logs, custom roles, team tokens, approvals and customer-managed keys need Pro ($400 a month) or Enterprise\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | AWS Secrets Manager | Pulumi ESC | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 77 | 60 | AWS Secrets Manager +17 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 96 | 82 | AWS Secrets Manager +14 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 90 | 75 | AWS Secrets Manager +15 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 91 | 79 | AWS Secrets Manager +12 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 55 | Pulumi ESC +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 82 | Pulumi ESC +17 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 65 | AWS Secrets Manager +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **77.7 · BB** | **71.1 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | AWS Secrets Manager | Pulumi ESC |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Pulumi Corporation |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://secretsmanager.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://api.pulumi.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| Price for secrets store | $0.40 per month (plan) | not published |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary service under Pulumi's Terms \u0026 Conditions. The Pulumi CLI, the ESC evaluator and the ESC SDKs are Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | none | 2026-10-07 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 15.2M npm/wk, 578.4M PyPI/wk | 21k npm/wk, 54k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.9/5 (8) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**AWS Secrets Manager.** IAM roles support access without long-lived credentials on AWS compute services. Each API call is billed, making caching relevant to frequent reads.\n\n**Pulumi ESC.** An agent can start without a signup, because the Pulumi CLI creates a free ephemeral account that includes ESC, and the REST API has a public OpenAPI document. Audit logs, custom roles and approvals need the Pro edition at $400 a month, and no API rate limit was found in the reviewed documentation.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### AWS Secrets Manager\n\n1. Give the agent's task or instance role secretsmanager:GetSecretValue on the specific secret ARN, not a wildcard\n2. Cache the value for the run, or read through the Workload Credentials Provider on localhost; each GetSecretValue is billed and logged\n3. In Claude Code or Codex, install the aws-core plugin from the Agent Toolkit for AWS and pass secrets as {{resolve:secretsmanager:...}} references through asm-exec so values stay out of context\n4. Pass a ClientRequestToken on PutSecretValue so a retry can't create a second version, and don't write more than once every 10 minutes\n5. Read VersionStage AWSPREVIOUS if a rotation lands mid-run and the new credential isn't live yet\n\n### Pulumi ESC\n\n1. Use `pulumi env`, not `esc`. The standalone CLI stopped at v0.26.0 and gets no security fixes\n2. Read one value with `pulumi env open \u003corg\u003e/\u003cproject\u003e/\u003cenv\u003e \u003cproperty path\u003e` so the whole environment doesn't enter context\n3. Run tools with `pulumi env run \u003cenv\u003e -- \u003ccmd\u003e`, which filters secret values from the command's output unless -i is set\n4. Set PULUMI_ACCESS_TOKEN for the SDKs. From 0.14.0 they no longer read the CLI login on disk\n5. Send `Authorization: token \u003ctoken\u003e` and `Accept: application/vnd.pulumi+8` on REST calls, and expect 409 when an environment changed since it was read\n6. Relay the claim link an agent account prints. The account goes read-only after 72 hours and locks after 30 days unclaimed\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, AWS Secrets Manager or Pulumi ESC?\n\nAWS Secrets Manager scores 77.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Pulumi ESC's 71.1 (BB), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Pulumi ESC leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do AWS Secrets Manager and Pulumi ESC need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call AWS Secrets Manager and Pulumi ESC without installing anything?\n\nYes. AWS Secrets Manager has a hosted endpoint at https://secretsmanager.us-east-1.amazonaws.com and Pulumi ESC at https://api.pulumi.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-pulumi-esc.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-pulumi-esc.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"aws-secrets-manager\", \"b\": \"pulumi-esc\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare aws-secrets-manager pulumi-esc`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/aws-secrets-manager.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pulumi-esc.json\n\n## Other comparisons with AWS Secrets Manager or Pulumi ESC\n\n- [1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP vs AWS Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1password-vs-aws-secrets-manager.md)\n- [1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP vs Pulumi ESC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1password-vs-pulumi-esc.md)\n- [Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) vs AWS Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akeyless-vs-aws-secrets-manager.md)\n- [Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) vs Pulumi ESC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akeyless-vs-pulumi-esc.md)\n- [AWS Secrets Manager vs Azure Key Vault](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-azure-key-vault.md)\n- [AWS Secrets Manager vs Bitwarden Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-bitwarden-secrets-manager.md)\n- [AWS Secrets Manager vs Doppler](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-doppler.md)\n- [AWS Secrets Manager vs Google Cloud Secret Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-google-secret-manager.md)\n- [AWS Secrets Manager vs HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-hashicorp-vault.md)\n- [AWS Secrets Manager vs Infisical](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-infisical.md)\n- [AWS Secrets Manager vs Keeper Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.md)\n- [AWS Secrets Manager vs Phase](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-phase.md)\n- [Azure Key Vault vs Pulumi ESC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-key-vault-vs-pulumi-esc.md)\n- [Bitwarden Secrets Manager vs Pulumi ESC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitwarden-secrets-manager-vs-pulumi-esc.md)\n- [Doppler vs Pulumi ESC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/doppler-vs-pulumi-esc.md)\n- [Google Cloud Secret Manager vs Pulumi ESC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-secret-manager-vs-pulumi-esc.md)\n- [HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server vs Pulumi ESC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hashicorp-vault-vs-pulumi-esc.md)\n- [Infisical vs Pulumi ESC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/infisical-vs-pulumi-esc.md)\n- [Keeper Secrets Manager vs Pulumi ESC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/keeper-secrets-manager-vs-pulumi-esc.md)\n- [Phase vs Pulumi ESC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/phase-vs-pulumi-esc.md)\n",
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