# How Amazon Data Firehose uses Amazon Secrets Manager
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You can use Amazon Data Firehose to deliver real-time streaming data to various streaming destinations. When the destination requires a credentials or key, Firehose retrieves a secret from Secrets Manager at runtime to connect to the destination. For more information, see [Authenticate with Amazon Secrets Manager in Amazon Data Firehose](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/firehose/latest/dev/using-secrets-manager.html) in the *Amazon Data Firehose Developer Guide*.