<p>Retrieves the contents of the encrypted fields <code>SecretString</code> or <code>SecretBinary</code> from the specified version of a secret, whichever contains content.</p> <p>We recommend that you cache your secret values by using client-side caching. Caching secrets improves speed and reduces your costs. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/retrieving-secrets.html">Cache secrets for your applications</a>.</p> <p>To retrieve the previous version of a secret, use <code>VersionStage</code> and specify AWSPREVIOUS. To revert to the previous version of a secret, call <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/secretsmanager/update-secret-version-stage.html">UpdateSecretVersionStage</a>.</p> <p>Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/retrieve-ct-entries.html">Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail</a>.</p> <p> <b>Required permissions: </b> <code>secretsmanager:GetSecretValue</code>. If the secret is encrypted using a customer-managed key instead of the Amazon Web Services managed key <code>aws/secretsmanager</code>, then you also need <code>kms:Decrypt</code> permissions for that key. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/reference_iam-permissions.html#reference_iam-permissions_actions"> IAM policy actions for Secrets Manager</a> and <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/auth-and-access.html">Authentication and access control in Secrets Manager</a>. </p>

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