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Tag: Key Management Service

How to set up ongoing replication from your third-party secrets manager to AWS Secrets Manager

How to set up ongoing replication from your third-party secrets manager to AWS Secrets Manager

Secrets managers are a great tool to securely store your secrets and provide access to secret material to a set of individuals, applications, or systems that you trust. Across your environments, you might have multiple secrets managers hosted on different providers, which can increase the complexity of maintaining a consistent operating model for your secrets. […]

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 […]

AWS Key Management Service now offers FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic modules enabling easier adoption of the service for regulated workloads

May 24, 2023: As of May 2023, AWS KMS is now certified at FIPS 140-2 Security Level 3. AWS Key Management Service (KMS) now uses FIPS 140-2 validated hardware security modules (HSM) and supports FIPS 140-2 validated endpoints, which provide independent assurances about the confidentiality and integrity of your keys. Having additional third-party assurances about […]

Share Custom Encryption Keys More Securely Between Accounts by Using AWS Key Management Service

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 […]