AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data. The customer master keys that you create in AWS KMS are protected by hardware security modules (HSMs).
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| AWS Key Management Service | 4.9% |
| Thales Luna HSM | 29.3% |
| Utimaco SecurityServer | 15.8% |
| Other | 50.0% |
AWS Key Management Service was previously known as AWS KMS.
| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Solution Architect at Special Communications Organization SCO | 5.0 | I use AWS KMS for data at rest encryption, valuing its BYOK, automatic key rotation, and service integration. It's highly stable and scalable. My main concerns are messy CloudTrail logging and a past multi-region key issue. |
