Using Encryption to Protect Your Data on Amazon S3
In this lesson, we will focus on the different S3 encryption mechanisms that are available to protect your object data.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this lesson, you will have an understanding of:
- Server-Side encryption options including:
- SSE-S3
- Default Encryption options
- SSE-KMS
- Bucket Keys
- SSE-C
- Client-Side encryption using the S3 Encryption Client including:
- CSE-KMS
- CSE-C
Intended Audience
- Those who are responsible for storing, managing, and protecting data that is stored on Amazon S3
Prerequisites
- Have an understanding of Amazon S3, and know how to upload and download objects as required
- Be familiar with the Key Management Service (KMS) and understand the different key types that exist
- Introduction to Amazon S3
- The fundamentals of the AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
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