AWS Security Blog
Tag: Data at rest
The Most Viewed AWS Security Blog Posts in 2017
September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. The following 10 posts were the most viewed AWS Security Blog posts that we published during 2017. You can use this list as a guide to catch up on your AWS Security Blog reading or read a post again that […]
Read MoreHow to Protect Data at Rest with Amazon EC2 Instance Store Encryption
Note: By default, an instance type that includes an NVMe instance store encrypts data at rest using an XTS-AES-256 block cipher. See this FAQ about NVMe-supported instance types. If you’re using an NVMw instance type, then data at rest is encrypted by default, and this post doesn’t apply to your situation. Encrypting data at rest […]
Read MoreThree Data-at-Rest Encryption Announcements
We’re excited to make three announcements around encryption of data at rest in AWS: We’ve published a new whitepaper: Securing Data at Rest with Encryption, which describes the various options for encrypting data at rest in AWS. It describes these options in terms of where encryption keys are stored and how access to those keys […]
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