Amazon Web Services Key Management Service has launched a new tool called the External Key Store (XKS), which enables customers to protect data with encryption keys under their control. Customers can "encrypt or decrypt data with cryptographic keys, independent authorization, and audit in an external key management system outside of AWS." At its core, XKS provides "a new, external root of trust" in which root keys are stored on user-operated hardware security modules. "When AWS KMS needs to encrypt or decrypt a data key, it forwards the request to your vendor-specific HSM."
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