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Businesses looking for a key management service for encrypted data
About Tencent Cloud Key Management Service
KMS leverages a third-party certified hardware security module (HSM) to generate and protect keys, and utilizes secure data transfer protocols, distributed clustered service deployment and hot backup for guaranteed availability. The security and quality control practices adopted by KMS are accredited by multiple compliance schemes. The Key Management Service provides you with rich management features, including key creation, enabling, disabling, rotation settings, alias settings, viewing key details, and modifying related information. KMS console is integrated with CAM and Cloud Monitor, enabling you to create keys easily for access control. Management operations and keys usages are also logged. KMS allows you to use your own key to encrypt and decrypt sensitive data by implementing Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) solution.
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Tencent
Founded: 2013
China
intl.cloud.tencent.com/product/kms
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