Amazon RDS is using Amazon Secrets Manager to store database credentials. The Amazon RDS Read replica will be set up in another region to implement a disaster recovery plan. As a SysOps administrator, you are planning to create multi-region Secret Manager secrets along with a read replica. The team lead is looking for the details of replicated secrets in multiple regions.
Which of the following statements correctly describes AWS Secret Manager replication in multiple regions? (Select Two)

Answer options:

A.Secrets Manager replicates all encrypted secrets and resource policies.
B.Replicated secrets will have common names across all regions.
C.Secrets Manager replicates only encrypted secrets.
D.Replicated secrets will have different names in each region.
E.Secrets Manager replicates all encrypted secrets and metadata.

Correct Answers: B and E
AWS Secrets Manager can be configured to replicate secrets across multiple regions. With this feature, multi-region applications like Amazon RDS can retrieve secrets locally within the region instead of retrieving secrets across the regions. Following are features when AWS Secrets Manager is configured to replicate secrets in multiple regions.
Replicated Secrets will have a common name across all regions.
Secrets Manager replicates all encrypted secrets and metadata.
Option A is incorrect as Secrets Manager not just encrypts secrets and resource policies but also replicates all the metadata such as tags, resource policies, rotation policies across the specified region.
Option C is incorrect as Secrets Manager not just encrypts secrets and resource policies but also replicates all the metadata such as tags, resource policies, rotation policies across the specified region.
Option D is incorrect as secrets have a common name across all regions and not a different name in each region.
For more information on multi-region replication with AWS Secrets Manager, refer to the following URL,
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-to-replicate-secrets-aws-secrets-manager-multiple-regions/