Posted On: Dec 21, 2023

Customers can now use customer managed keys defined in AWS Key Management Service to encrypt data residing in their Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspaces. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Prometheus is a popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation open-source project for monitoring and alerting on metrics from compute environments such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus has always provided encryption by default using AWS owned KMS keys for all data stored by the service. This feature provides you the option of adding a self-managed security layer to help you meet the compliance and regulatory requirements of your organization.

This feature is now available in all regions where the Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is available. To get started, check out the product page for more information.