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Tag: BYOK

Demystifying AWS KMS key operations, bring your own key (BYOK), custom key store, and ciphertext portability

October 4, 2024: This post has been updated to cover the following changes: FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validation of AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), the addition of the external key store service to AWS KMS, and FIPS 140-3 validation of AWS CloudHSM. As you prepare to build or migrate your workload on Amazon Web […]

How to BYOK (bring your own key) to AWS KMS for less than $15.00 a year using AWS CloudHSM

February 26, 2024: We’ve updated this post to replace the key_mgmt_util with cloudhsm-cli, which is part of the newer SDK 5. 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 […]