Dec. 14, 2023, 6:53 p.m. | Kannan

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AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) lets you create, manage, and control cryptographic keys across your applications and AWS services.



  • The service is integrated with other AWS services making it easier to encrypt data you store in these services and control access to the keys that decrypt it.


  • Creating KMS key. KMS > Customer managed Keys > Create key








  • Install the aws-encryption-cli to encrypt and decrypt the file via CLI.



sudo apt install python3-pip
sudo pip install aws-encryprion-sdk-cli
aws-encryption-cli --version …

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