AWS Security Blog
Tag: AWS KMS
Architecting for database encryption on AWS
In this post, I review the options you have to protect your customer data when migrating or building new databases in Amazon Web Services (AWS). I focus on how you can support sensitive workloads in ways that help you maintain compliance and regulatory obligations, and meet security objectives. Understanding transparent data encryption I commonly see […]
How to use AWS Config to determine compliance of AWS KMS key policies to your specifications
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. One of the top security methodologies is the principle of least privilege, which is the […]
How to verify AWS KMS asymmetric key signatures locally with OpenSSL
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. In this post, I demonstrate a sample workflow for generating a digital signature within AWS […]
Manage your AWS KMS API request rates using Service Quotas and Amazon CloudWatch
AWS Key Management Service (KMS) publishes API usage metrics to Amazon CloudWatch and Service Quotas allowing you to both monitor and manage your AWS KMS API request rate quotas. This functionality helps you understand trends in your usage of AWS KMS and can help prevent API request throttling as you grow your use of AWS […]
How to use KMS and IAM to enable independent security controls for encrypted data in S3
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. Typically, when you protect data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), you use a combination […]
Digital signing with the new asymmetric keys feature of AWS KMS
October 29, 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. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) now supports asymmetric keys. You can create, manage, and […]
Post-quantum TLS now supported in AWS KMS
January 30, 2024: The API in this blog post has been changed in newer version of the AWS CRT Client. See this page for more info. January 25, 2023: AWS KMS, ACM, Secrets Manager TLS endpoints have been updated to only support NIST’s Round 3 picked KEM, Kyber. s2n-tls and s2n-quic have also been updated […]
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 […]