<p>Validates that a resource policy does not grant a wide range of principals access to your secret. A resource-based policy is optional for secrets.</p> <p>The API performs three checks when validating the policy:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Sends a call to <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/protect-sensitive-data-in-the-cloud-with-automated-reasoning-zelkova/">Zelkova</a>, an automated reasoning engine, to ensure your resource policy does not allow broad access to your secret, for example policies that use a wildcard for the principal.</p> </li> <li> <p>Checks for correct syntax in a policy.</p> </li> <li> <p>Verifies the policy does not lock out a caller.</p> </li> </ul> <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:ValidateResourcePolicy</code> and <code>secretsmanager:PutResourcePolicy</code>. 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>

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}

<p>Validates that a resource policy does not grant a wide range of principals access to your secret. A resource-based policy is optional for secrets.</p> <p>The API performs three checks when validating the policy:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Sends a call to <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/protect-sensitive-data-in-the-cloud-with-automated-reasoning-zelkova/">Zelkova</a>, an automated reasoning engine, to ensure your resource policy does not allow broad access to your secret, for example policies that use a wildcard for the principal.</p> </li> <li> <p>Checks for correct syntax in a policy.</p> </li> <li> <p>Verifies the policy does not lock out a caller.</p> </li> </ul> <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:ValidateResourcePolicy</code> and <code>secretsmanager:PutResourcePolicy</code>. 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>

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}