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Tag: AWS KMS

How to deploy CloudHSM to securely share your keys with your SaaS provider

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. August 6, 2019: We’ve made an update to clarify use cases for VPC peering. If your […]

Podcast: How AWS KMS could help customers meet encryption and deletion requirements, including GDPR

Encryption is a powerful tool to protect your data but it can be difficult to get right because it demands understanding how encryption keys are created, distributed, used, and managed. To make encryption easier to use, we created AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to let you scale your use of the cloud without struggling to […]

How to Connect Directly to AWS Key Management Service from Amazon VPC by Using an AWS PrivateLink Endpoint

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints powered by AWS PrivateLink. This means you now can connect directly to AWS KMS through a private endpoint in your VPC, keeping all traffic within your VPC and the AWS network. Previously, applications running inside a VPC required internet access […]

Introducing the New GDPR Center and “Navigating GDPR Compliance on AWS” Whitepaper

At AWS re:Invent 2017, the AWS Compliance team participated in excellent engagements with AWS customers about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including discussions that generated helpful input. Today, I am announcing resulting enhancements to our recently launched GDPR Center and the release of a new whitepaper, Navigating GDPR Compliance on AWS. The resources available […]

AWS Earns Department of Defense Impact Level 5 Provisional Authorization

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has granted the AWS GovCloud (US) Region an Impact Level 5 (IL5) Department of Defense (DoD) Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (CC SRG) Provisional Authorization (PA) for six core services. This means that AWS’s DoD customers and partners can now deploy workloads for Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) exceeding IL4 […]

New AWS DevOps Blog Post: How to Help Secure Your Code in a Cross-Region/Cross-Account Deployment Solution on AWS

You can help to protect your data in a number of ways while it is in transit and at rest, such as by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or client-side encryption. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to create, control, rotate, and use your encryption keys. AWS […]

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 […]

Amazon Simple Queue Service Introduces Server-Side Encryption for Queues

You can now use Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) to exchange sensitive data between applications using server-side encryption (SSE). SQS is a fully managed message queuing service for reliably communicating between distributed software components and microservices at any scale. You can use SQS to take advantage of the scale, cost, and operational benefits of a […]