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AWS Key Management Service

Create and control keys used to encrypt or digitally sign your data
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Benefits

Centrally manage keys and define policies across integrated services and applications from a single point.
Encrypt data within your applications with the AWS Encryption SDK data encryption library.
Perform signing operations using asymmetric key pairs to validate digital signatures.
Securely generate hash-based message authentication codes (HMACs) that ensure message integrity and authenticity.

What is AWS KMS?

Use AWS KMS to encrypt data across your AWS workloads, digitally sign data, encrypt within your  applications using AWS Encryption SDK, and generate and verify message authentication codes (MACs).

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Use cases

Activate server-side encryption with AWS KMS using KMS keys that you control and manage.

Use the AWS Encryption SDK to securely handle cryptographic operations in your applications.

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Protect signing operations with AWS KMS using asymmetric KMS keys.

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Use the AWS Database Encryption SDK to easily encrypt and securely search sensitive records in your databases.

Learn more about the AWS Database Encryption SDK

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