New Encryption Options for Amazon RDS and AWS Key Management Service.

Following the launching of AWS Key Management Service (AWS Key Management Service (KMS)) last year, to help you to implement key management at enterprise scale with facility to create and rotate keys, establish usage policies, and to perform audits on key usage, henceforth , you can encrypt data at rest in Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) database instances running MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle Database.

Encryption (AES-256) and decryption are applied automatically and transparently to RDS storage and to database snapshots.