• KMS keys are region specific, probably due to the fact that the services that rely on KMS are mostly region specific
  • Means they are like EC2 instances
  • Even if you have same KMS alias in different region, inherently its a different key

Multi Region key MRK

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igikgFCd48g
  • Decided on key creation time whether the Key is regional or multi regional
  • After creating a MRK we would need to specify which region we need to replicate to
  • Easily move data without re-encryption