OpenSSL Dynamic Engine

The AWS CloudHSM OpenSSL Dynamic Engine allows you to offload cryptographic operations to your CloudHSM cluster through the OpenSSL API.

AWS CloudHSM provides an OpenSSL Dynamic Engine, which you can read about in SSL/TLS offload on Linux. For an example on using AWS CloudHSM with OpenSSL, refer to this AWS security blog. For information about platform support for SDKs, see Client SDK 5 supported platforms. For troubleshooting, see Known issues for the OpenSSL Dynamic Engine.

For information on using Client SDK 3, see Previous Client SDK (Client SDK 3).

For more information, refer to the topics below.