Initializing and activating a CloudHSM cluster

In this recipe, we will initialize and activate a CloudHSM cluster. In the previous recipe, we created a CloudHSM cluster. AWS CloudHSM is a dedicated HSM on the AWS Cloud that we can use to generate and use our own encryption keys.

Getting ready

We need a working AWS account to complete this recipe. You can create a CloudHSM cluster by following the Creating a CloudHSM cluster recipe in this chapter.

CloudHSM usage costs more than KMS, and CloudHSM doesn't have a free tier either. If you are following the recipes related to CloudHSM, then you should be careful while using it. After completing the steps within this recipe, you should clean up the resources that you created...