For its latest trick Amazon Web Services has launched CloudHSM so users – pointedly the enterprise – can up their data security and meet compliance requirements by using dedicated, tamper-resistant Hardware Security Module (HSM) appliances within the AWS cloud.
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Amazon says the CloudHSM service lets customers securely generate, store and manage the cryptographic keys used for data encryption so they’re only accessible by the customer.