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AWS & Cloud interview questions
EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM and VPC basics, with when to pick which service.
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- What is envelope encryption in AWS KMS and why is it used?
Envelope encryption encrypts data with a data key, then encrypts that data key with a KMS key. KMS directly handles only small payloads (up to 4 KB), so large data is encrypted locally with the data key, and only the small data key goes to KMS.
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