# How Amazon Kendra uses AWS Secrets Manager
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Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and intelligent search service that enables your users to search unstructured and structured data using natural language processing and advanced search algorithms. 

You can index documents stored in a database by specifying a secret that contains credentials for the database. For more information, see [Using a database data source](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/dg/data-source-database.html) in the *Amazon Kendra User Guide*.