**To create a basic secret** The following example shows how to create a secret. The credentials stored in the encrypted secret value are retrieved from a file on disk named ``mycreds.json``. :: aws secretsmanager create-secret --name MyTestDatabaseSecret \ --description "My test database secret created with the CLI" \ --secret-string file://mycreds.json The output shows the following: :: { "ARN": "arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-west-2:123456789012:secret:MyTestDatabaseSecret-a1b2c3", "Name": "MyTestDatabaseSecret", "VersionId": "EXAMPLE1-90ab-cdef-fedc-ba987EXAMPLE" }