Interactive Tour of Amazon Web Services' Key Management Service

Objective

• Understand key functionality of AWS KMS including:
  • Key Generation for Symmetric and Asymmetric Customer Master Keys with KMS
  • Envelope Key and related Ops with Asymmetric and Asymmetric Keys
  • Additional Key Management Ops like Key Rotation, etc.

Installation

Dependencies

• JupyterLabs (Jupyter Notebook)
• boto3 - AWS Python SDK
• Python 3.6.X (Although we reckon it should work fine with most py3 versions)

Usage

• Start virtualenv (if using)
• Run jupyter notebook
• Access the browser and navigate to AWS KMS Primer.ipynb and execute code per instructions