Category: AWS CloudHSM

You can use the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) custom key store feature to gain more control over your KMS keys. The KMS custom key store integrates KMS with AWS CloudHSM to help satisfy compliance obligations that would otherwise require the use of on-premises hardware security modules (HSMs) while providing the AWS service integrations of […]

You can use AWS CloudHSM to generate, store, import, export, and manage your cryptographic keys. It also permits hash functions to compute message digests and hash-based message authentication codes (HMACs), as well as cryptographically sign data and verify signatures. To help ensure redundancy of data and simplification of the disaster recovery process, you’ll typically clone […]

SSL/TLS certificates are used to create encrypted sessions to endpoints such as web servers. If you want to get an SSL certificate, you usually start by creating a private key and a corresponding certificate signing request (CSR). You then send the CSR to a certificate authority (CA) and receive a certificate. When a user seeks […]

AWS CloudHSM provides fully managed, single-tenant hardware security modules (HSMs) in the AWS cloud. A CloudHSM cluster contains either one or multiple HSMs. Multiple HSMs support higher throughput levels for cryptographic operations and provide redundancy. For clusters with multiple HSMs, the CloudHSM service supports server-side automated synchronization of keys and policies. Users, however, are synchronized […]

Note: The on-demand recording and deck from this Tech Talk are now available. As part of the AWS Online Tech Talks series, AWS will present CloudHSM – Secure, Scalable Key Storage in AWS on Wednesday, October 25. This tech talk will start at 9:00 A.M. Pacific Time and end at 9:40 A.M. Pacific Time. Applications handling confidential […]

Note from September 18, 2017: In this blog post, “AWS CloudHSM” refers to the product that’s now known as AWS CloudHSM Classic. As I explained in my previous Security Blog post, a hardware security module (HSM) is a hardware device designed with the security of your data and cryptographic key material in mind. It is […]

A hardware security module (HSM) is a hardware device designed with the security of your data and cryptographic key material in mind. It is tamper-resistant hardware that prevents unauthorized users from attempting to pry open the device, plug any extra devices in to access data or keys such as subtokens, or damage the outside housing. […]

AWS CloudHSM is now integrated with Amazon RDS for Oracle. With this new capability, you can let AWS operate your Oracle databases while maintaining control of the master encryption keys. The AWS CloudHSM service helps you meet compliance requirements for data security by making dedicated, single-tenant Hardware Security Module (HSM) appliances available within the AWS […]

Previously, Todd Cignetti, AWS Security Product Manager, wrote a post that covered some typical use cases for AWS CloudHSM, a service that helps you securely generate, store, and manage the cryptographic keys used for data encryption such that they are accessible only by you. In this post, Todd continues the series on AWS CloudHSM with […]

Many of our readers have told us that they want to learn more about encryption and key management in AWS. CloudHSM is an AWS service that can establish an even greater trust in AWS from which encryption and key management applications can be anchored. If you’re not familiar with AWS CloudHSM, you can read more […]