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AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS

You're reading from   AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS Learn to secure your data, servers, and applications with AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789134513
Length 118 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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AWS KMS


AWS KMS is a fully managed service that supports encryption for your data at rest and data in transit while working with AWS services. AWS KMS lets you create and manage keys that are used to encrypt your data. It provides a fully managed and highly available key storage, management and auditing solution that can be used to encrypt data across AWS services as well as to encrypt data within your applications. It is low cost as default keys are stored in your account at no charge – you pay for key usage and for creating any additional master keys.

KMS Benefits

AWS KMS has various benefits such as importing your own keys in KMS and creating keys with aliases and description. You can disable keys temporarily and re-enable them. You can also delete keys that are no longer required or used. You can rotate your keys periodically or let AWS rotate them annually. Let us look at some major benefits of KMS in detail:

Fully Managed

AWS KMS is a fully managed service, where AWS takes care of underlying...

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