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Planning for encryption

Planning for encryption - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Planning for encryption

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- As we're approaching the end of our chapter on designing our databases, we need to talk about planning for encryption, because planning encryption solutions for your database is really wildly important. Think about what we're talking about. We're talking about our data. If you talk about an EC2 instance that runs some process that does a temporary calculation in memory, and then once it's done, the data is just gone from that instance, then security is a concern, but it's not nearly as big as our data. Generally speaking, the most valuable asset any organization has, is their data, particularly in the business world. And so it's very, very important to protect that data. And there are a couple of ways we can do it. We can do it with at-rest encryption, and in-transit encryption. At-rest encryption is encryption of the data. while it's in storage. The AWS system gives you at-rest encryption and encrypts, several…

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