AWS Security Essentials - KMS Integration with S3

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AWS Security Essentials - KMS Integration with S3

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data. KMS uses FIPS 140-2 validated hardware security modules to protect the security of your keys. AWS Key Management Service is integrated with most other AWS services to help you protect the data you store with these services. AWS Key Management Service is also integrated with AWS CloudTrail and S3 to provide you with logs of all key usage to help meet your regulatory and compliance needs. This activity allows the student to get experience with how KMS integrates with services in AWS while encrypting S3 data with a default master key as well as a custom key.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 24, 2025

Duration

1h 0m

Challenge

Create an Encrypted S3 Bucket

Let's create an encrypted S3 bucket.
Challenge

Encrypt Two Files in S3 with Different Keys

Let's encrypt two files in S3 with different keys: an AWS managed key and a customer managed key.

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