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Security via AWS KMS

Security via AWS KMS - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Security via AWS KMS

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- Amazon includes a key management service. Many AWS services can use AWS KMS to encrypt customer data. There are two key types that you can generate. With KMS, master keys, or keys that are used to encrypt other keys and data keys, keys that are used to encrypt data. You find the KMS service in kind of an un-intuitive place, in the AWS console. The IM section encryption keys. And what's shown here in the graphic is an example of how the various keys could be used to encrypt data. This is used with services like S3 and other file storage services on AWS. If you're new to the idea of data encryption with keys, you might want to further pursue the concepts via this Amazon documentation reference that I'm showing here, however I'm assuming that many of you would be familiar based on work that you've done in internal networks. So that being said, let's go the console, and go to IM. In the IM console the last link on the left encryption keys allows us to work with our keys. Your console…

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