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Tag: migration

Solution overview: migrate keys

How to migrate symmetric exportable keys from AWS CloudHSM Classic to AWS CloudHSM

In August 2017, we announced the “new” AWS CloudHSM service, which had a lot of improvements over AWS CloudHSM Classic (for clarity in this post I will refer to the services as New CloudHSM and CloudHSM Classic). These advantages in security, scalability, usability, and economy, included FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certification, fully managed high availability […]

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Creating an opportunistic IPSec mesh between EC2 instances

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. IPSec (IP Security) is a protocol for in-transit data protection between hosts. Configuration of site-to-site […]