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Rajesh Daswani
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Rajesh Daswani

Rajesh Daswani is a senior solutions architect, AWS course content creator, and corporate trainer with over 20 years' experience in core IT infrastructure services and cloud computing. He has delivered corporate training programs and online training for several clients across the UK, USA, and India and published courses for Packt Publishing. Rajesh now delivers courses for the IaaS Academy, an online training provider that delivers on-demand cloud computing training and practice exam simulators to help students and IT professionals ace IT certification exams. You will also find extensive blog articles and exam tips on the IaaS Academy website to help you with your study and revision.
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Overview of data encryption services on AWS

Encrypting your data is a critical step in ensuring that you protect its integrity and avoid data being readable by unauthorized parties. AWS enables you to encrypt your data both in transit (while it is being transmitted from a source to a destination) and at rest (while it resides on a disk).

To protect data in transit, you must transmit the data using Secure Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) or some form of client-side encryption. SSL/TLS requires you to make use of certificates, which are used to encrypt and decrypt the data.

To protect data at rest, you must create and use encryption keys to encrypt and decrypt your data. Encryption keys are data files containing a long series of numbers or letters that is used by a cryptographic algorithm to encode and decode data. Examples of algorithms you may have heard of include Triple DES or Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256) bit encryption.

An encryption key can either...

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Rajesh Daswani

Rajesh Daswani is a senior solutions architect, AWS course content creator, and corporate trainer with over 20 years' experience in core IT infrastructure services and cloud computing. He has delivered corporate training programs and online training for several clients across the UK, USA, and India and published courses for Packt Publishing. Rajesh now delivers courses for the IaaS Academy, an online training provider that delivers on-demand cloud computing training and practice exam simulators to help students and IT professionals ace IT certification exams. You will also find extensive blog articles and exam tips on the IaaS Academy website to help you with your study and revision.
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