Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate now allows you to encrypt ephemeral storage with customer-managed KMS keys
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The article summarizes a new security feature in Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and AWS Fargate that allows customers to encrypt ephemeral storage for tasks using their own customer-managed KMS keys.
Specifically, the article covers:
- ECS and Fargate now support using customer-managed KMS keys to encrypt ephemeral storage for Fargate tasks
- This feature helps meet compliance requirements for customers dealing with sensitive data
- Customers can configure a customer-managed KMS key for their ECS cluster to encrypt ephemeral storage for all Fargate tasks
- The feature is available in all commercial and AWS GovCloud regions for tasks running on Fargate platform version 1.4.0 or higher
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