Tag: Encryption

Update: The on-demand recording and slides from this webinar are now available.   As part of the AWS Webinar Series, AWS will present Deep Dive: Protecting Your Data with AWS Encryption on Tuesday, June 16. This webinar will start at 9:00 A.M. and end at 10:00 A.M. Pacific Time (UTC-7). AWS Principal Product Manager Ken Beer […]

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 November 2014, AWS launched Key Management Service (KMS), a managed service that makes it […]

Today, Amazon Redshift and Amazon RDS for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server DB released support for encryption using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. Using keys under your control, you can now encrypt RDS instances, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server DB instance types, and Amazon Redshift clusters in AWS GovCloud […]

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. You can now encrypt data in your own applications and within the following AWS services in GovCloud by using keys under your control: Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes Amazon S3 objects using Server Side Encryption (SSE-KMS) and client-side encryption using the […]

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to create, control, rotate, and use your encryption keys in your applications. KMS allows you to create custom keys that other AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and roles in your AWS account can use. You can also enable […]

With the steady stream of updates and enhancements for AWS services, it can be easy to miss important information about features related to security. Here are some recent security-related updates and announcements about AWS services that you might not have heard about yet. Customizable security groups and multiple task instances now available for Amazon EMR […]

Six weeks ago, we announced that Amazon Elastic Transcoder released support for encryption of media assets using AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Today we are making another improvement to how Elastic Transcoder protects your media assets with encryption. You can now use AES-128 encryption to protect the transcoded files that are delivered to your end […]

November 24, 2021: This blog post announced a feature of AWS CloudHSM Classic which integrated with Amazon RDS for Oracle to provide customers with an easy integration for Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). The AWS CloudHSM team have since released AWS CloudHSM, and this feature is no longer available. For updated options, please see out this […]

Today, Amazon RDS for MySQL and PostgreSQL released support for database encryption using AWS Key Management Service (KMS). This feature addresses a common request from customers who have asked for an easy way to encrypt data in these RDS database types. When you create a new MySQL or PostgreSQL database instance, you can choose to […]

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) now supports a new AWS service in addition to Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, and Amazon Redshift. This week Amazon Elastic Transcoder released support for encryption of media assets using AWS KMS. Specifically, you can upload encrypted mezzanine files, thumbnails, captions and watermarks to Amazon Elastic Transcoder and allow the service to […]