Securing Data at Rest

You might be required to encrypt your data at rest for all AWS services or for some of the AWS storage services depending on your organizational policies, industry or government regulations, compliance, or simply for adding another layer of security for your data. AWS provides several options for encrypting data at rest including fully automated and fully managed AWS encryption solutions, manual encryption solutions, client-side encryption, and so on. In this section, we are going to go over these options for each AWS storage service.

Amazon S3

The S3 is one of the major and most commonly used storage services in the AWS platform. It supports a wide range of use cases such as file storage, archival records, disaster recovery, website hosting, and so on. The S3 provides multiple features to protect your data such as encryption, MFA, versioning, access control policies, cross-region replication, and so on. Let us look at these features for protecting your data at rest in...