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Tag: Keys

Amazon Macie

Detect Stripe keys in S3 buckets with Amazon Macie

Many customers building applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS) use Stripe global payment services to help get their product out faster and grow revenue, especially in the internet economy. It’s critical for customers to securely and properly handle the credentials used to authenticate with Stripe services. Much like your AWS API keys, which enable access […]

How to lower costs by automatically deleting and recreating HSMs

You can use AWS CloudHSM to help manage your encryption keys on FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated hardware security modules (HSMs). AWS recommends running a high-availability production architecture with at least two CloudHSM HSMs in different Availability Zones. Although many workloads must be available 24/7, quality assurance or development environments typically do not have this […]

Benefits of a Key Hierarchy with a Master Key (Part Two of the AWS CloudHSM Series)

Previously, Todd Cignetti, AWS Security Product Manager, wrote a post that covered some typical use cases for AWS CloudHSM, a service that helps you securely generate, store, and manage the cryptographic keys used for data encryption such that they are accessible only by you. In this post, Todd continues the series on AWS CloudHSM with […]