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Itay Meller

Author: Itay Meller

Itay Meller is a Security Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, with a strong background in cybersecurity R&D and leadership roles across various security-focused companies. With deep expertise in cloud security, Itay helps organizations securely adopt and scale their AWS environments by addressing complex security and compliance challenges

Simplify multi-tenant encryption with a cost-conscious AWS KMS key strategy

In this post, we explore an efficient approach to managing encryption keys in a multi-tenant SaaS environment through centralization, addressing challenges like key proliferation, rising costs, and operational complexity across multiple AWS accounts and services. We demonstrate how implementing a centralized key management strategy using a single AWS KMS key per tenant can maintain security and compliance while reducing operational overhead as organizations scale.