AWS Security Blog
Author: June Blender
How to encrypt and sign DynamoDB data in your application
August 31, 2021: AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some variations of this term. More info. If you store sensitive or confidential data in Amazon DynamoDB, you might want to encrypt […]
How to Encrypt and Decrypt Your Data with the AWS Encryption CLI
August 31, 2021: AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some variations of this term. More info You can now encrypt and decrypt your data at the command line and in scripts—no […]
AWS Encryption SDK: How to Decide if Data Key Caching Is Right for Your Application
Today, the AWS Crypto Tools team introduced a new feature in the AWS Encryption SDK: data key caching. Data key caching lets you reuse the data keys that protect your data, instead of generating a new data key for each encryption operation. Data key caching can reduce latency, improve throughput, reduce cost, and help you […]