Unknown service: 'secretsmanager' or AWS Secrets Manager service is not in the list of AWS CLI

9
votes

I was trying to use AWS secrets manager service for storing secret keys. I could store the key in the secrets manager, but while retrieving the key using the code they provide I'm getting this error.

UnknownServiceError: Unknown service: 'secretsmanager'. Valid service names are: acm, alexaforbusiness,...

I tried a search on the AWS CLI and the service is not on the list also. 

aws: error: argument command: Invalid choice, valid choices are:

acm                                      | alexaforbusiness                        
apigateway                               | application-autoscaling                 
appstream                                | appsync     
.
.
.

Do I need some kind of aws cli update? May be because of the CLI version that I'm using. Then, how can I update that. I tried 

sudo apt-get install -y awscli

an it says 

awscli is already the newest version (1.11.13-1ubuntu1~16.04.0).
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amazon-web-servicesaws-secrets-manager

1 Answers

14
votes

secretsmanager is only available from aws cli version 1.15.8 and upwards

aws --version

aws-cli/1.15.10 Python/2.7.10 Darwin/17.5.0 botocore/1.10.10

You may need to manually install/update aws cli