Security

AWS KMS

AWS Key Management Service manages the encryption keys behind other AWS services and your own applications.

Authentication

  • AWS Signature V4

Actions

Generic API request. Call any AWS KMS operation on this connection, for the case where no shipped action covers it yet. Every AWS KMS call is a POST to the service host carrying an operation target and a JSON payload; the connection supplies the host, the region, the SigV4 signing and the egress route, so only the target and the payload…

  • DecryptDecrypt a ciphertext produced by Encrypt or GenerateDataKey (Decrypt).
  • Describe keyDescribe a KMS key's metadata (DescribeKey).
  • EncryptEncrypt up to 4 KB directly under a KMS key (Encrypt).
  • Get key policyGet the key policy attached to a KMS key (GetKeyPolicy).
  • List aliasesList the KMS key aliases in the account and region this connection points at, each mapping a friendly alias/my-key name to the key id it points at.
  • List keysList KMS customer master keys (ListKeys).

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