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Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage Using Your Service

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Check if EBS encryption is enabled

When EBS encryption is enabled by default, you must specify the AWS Key Management System (KMS) key to use which is managed either by you or AWS. Customer-managed keys allow for granular control over the key's configurations, such as the establishing and maintaining your own key policies, IAM policies, and grants.

About this task

Use UI or AWS API to check if EBS encryption is enabled by default.

Determine using AWS API

Determine using AWS UI

Steps

  1. Open the AWS management console for the specified account and region.
  2. Search for EC2 and go to the EC2 dashboard.
  3. Under Settings, go to Data protection and security.
  4. Review the configured EBS default encryption key, and check whether Always encrypt new EBS volumes is enabled or disabled.
  5. Search for Key Management Service and go to Key Management Service.
  6. In Key Management Service, check if the EBS default encryption key is under AWS-managed keys or customer-managed keys.

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