EBS ENCRYPTION

How to create encrypted EBS Volume.

Encrypting and securing your Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume is crucial for ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you achieve this:

1. Encrypting EBS Volumes

Amazon provides built-in encryption for EBS volumes using the AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Here’s how you can enable it:

Encrypting a New EBS Volume

— Open the Amazon EC2 console.

— In the navigation pane, choose “Volumes”.

— Click “Create Volume”,and Select the volume type and size.

while creating an instance we have to give some details as per our configuration, this is where we meet our configurations such as volume type,Size,IOPS,Throughput(MB/S).

— Under “Encryption”, select the checkbox “Encrypt this volume”.

Choose the KMS key you want to use. If you don’t have a specific key, select the default aws/ebs key,

— Complete the creation of the volume.

— After creating the Encrypted volume wait for it to be available

— After creating you can attach your created volume to any instance you want.

and then select the instance and click on the “Attach volume”