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Key Management Service:Getting started with KMS and Cloud Hardware Security Module

Last Updated:May 06, 2025

This topic lists the topics that help you get started with Key Management Service (KMS) and Cloud Hardware Security Module. The topics include how to purchase and use a KMS instance and a hardware security module (HSM).

Alibaba Cloud provides the following data encryption and decryption solutions that allow you to use keys to protect sensitive data assets.

  • KMS provides secure and compliant key management and secret management. KMS supports server-side encryption of cloud services. KMS also supports key management and encryption and decryption for applications. KMS allows you to save sensitive data as secrets. This helps prevent sensitive data leaks due to hardcoded credentials in your application.

  • Cloud Hardware Security Module provides cloud-based data encryption and decryption based on HSMs to comply with Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 Level 3. Cloud Hardware Security Module is an infrastructure as a service (IaaS)-based service.

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