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Shubham Kumar

Author: Shubham Kumar

Enhance security and performance with TLS 1.3 and Perfect Forward Secrecy on Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service recently introduced a new Transport Layer Security (TLS) policy Policy-Min-TLS-1-2-PFS-2023-10, which supports the latest TLS 1.3 protocol and TLS 1.2 with Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) cipher suites. This new policy improves security and enhances OpenSearch performance. In this post, we discuss the benefits of this new policy and how to enable it using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).