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Tag: Key management

Scaling cross-account AWS KMS–encrypted Amazon S3 bucket access using ABAC

This blog post shows you how to share encrypted Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets across accounts on a multi-tenant data lake. Our objective is to show scalability over a larger volume of accounts that can access the data lake, in a scenario where there is one central account to share from. Most use […]

The importance of encryption and how AWS can help

Encryption is a critical component of a defense-in-depth strategy, which is a security approach with a series of defensive mechanisms designed so that if one security mechanism fails, there’s at least one more still operating. As more organizations look to operate faster and at scale, they need ways to meet critical compliance requirements and improve […]

What’s New in AWS Key Management Service: AWS CloudFormation Support and Integration with More AWS Services

November 1, 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. We’re happy to make two announcements about what’s new in AWS Key Management Service (KMS). […]

Learn About the Rest of the Security and Compliance Track Sessions Being Offered at re:Invent 2015

Previously, I mentioned that the re:Invent 2015 Security & Compliance track sessions had been announced, and I also discussed the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) sessions that will be offered as part of the Security & Compliance track. Today, I will highlight the remainder of the sessions that will be presented as part of the […]

Amazon Redshift and Amazon RDS Now Support Encryption via AWS Key Management Service in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region

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 Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region

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 […]

A New Way to Encrypt Your Data and Manage Encryption Keys Using AWS Key Management Service

Today, we’re excited to announce AWS Key Management Service (KMS) a new service that gives you control and visibility over the encryption keys that protect your data, with strong security and audit controls. AWS KMS is integrated with other AWS services including Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, and Amazon Redshift to simplify encryption of your data within those […]