New Whitepaper Available: AWS Key Management Service Best Practices

Today, we are happy to announce the release of a new whitepaper: AWS Key Management Service Best Practices. This whitepaper takes knowledge learned from some of the largest adopters of AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) and makes it available to all AWS customers. AWS KMS is a managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control the keys used to encrypt your data and uses hardware security modules to protect the security of your keys.

This new whitepaper is structured around the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) Security Perspective. The AWS CAF provides guidance to help organizations that are moving to the AWS Cloud and is broken into a number of areas of focus that are relevant to implementing cloud-based IT systems, which we call Perspectives. The Security Perspective organizes the principles that help drive the transformation of your organization’s security through Identity and Access Management, Detective Control, Infrastructure Security, Data Protection, and Incident Response. For each of the capabilities, the new whitepaper provides not only details about how your organization should use KMS to protect sensitive information across use cases but also the means of measuring progress.

Whether you have already implemented your key management infrastructure using KMS or are just starting to do so, this whitepaper provides insight into some of the best practices we recommend to our customers across industries and compliance regimes.

– Matt

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