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Key management - Amazon Q Business

Amazon Q Business encrypts the contents of your index using the following types of keys:

  • An AWS-owned AWS KMS. This is the default.

  • A customer-managed KMS key. You can create the key when you are creating an Amazon Q application environment, retriever, index, web experience, data source, or plugins, or you can create the key using the AWS KMS console. Select a symmetric encryption customer-managed KMS key.

    Important

    Amazon Q does not support asymmetric KMS keys. For more information, see Using Symmetric and Asymmetric Keys in the AWS Key Management Service Developer Guide.

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