Here's a question I don't know the answer to right off, but we're going to discover together in real time: Which is cheaper, one million queries to fetch the va

Here's a question I don't know the answer to right off, but we're going to discover together in real time: Which is cheaper, one million queries to fetch the value of a secret from AWS Secrets Manager, or one million tokens from a modern LLM? Storing a secret in secrets manager: $0.40 $0.05/10,000 API calls * 1,000,000 calls = $5 Total cost: $5.40. Gemini 2.5 Flash: $0.15/million tokens. Well, there you have it. Storing a secret value in AWS Secrets Manager is ~36 times more expensive per API call than querying an LLM!