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0 pointszhoutong13y ago0 comments

AFAIK the keys are managed by Amazon, just like S3. It's more for compliance reasons rather than real security. Encryption still has to be done yourself to protect the data.

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guan13y ago

It does protect you against situations where Amazon loses disks or tapes, or disposes of them improperly, or they are stolen.

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