# AWS Key Management Service (KMS) Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Encryption Key Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/encryption-key-management) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 32 ## About AWS Key Management Service (KMS) AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is a service that help to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt data, and uses Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) to protect the security of keys. ## AWS Key Management Service (KMS) Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **variety of AWS services** , finding them superior for diverse cloud needs and security solutions. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **variety of cloud services** in AWS KMS, enabling robust support for various security architectures. (1 reviews) - Users value the **security protection** AWS KMS offers, ensuring robust defenses against various cyber threats. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users report **access issues** with AWS KMS, citing failures in protecting resources during DDoS attack simulations. (1 reviews) - Users report significant **connectivity issues** with AWS KMS, especially during DDoS attack simulations affecting system accessibility. (1 reviews) ## AWS Key Management Service (KMS) Reviews ### 1. AWS need improvement in some areas of security **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prashant G. | Cloud Network Security, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** AWS has good number of services which are best among all Cloud service providers for me like AWS Transist Gateway to support Hub and Spoke architecture, AWS WAF and Shield for L3,L4 & L7 attacks, AWS IAM, AWS Gurd duty, AWS Inspector etc **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** AWS Shield advance service needs an improvement to protect from every type of DDoS attacks as it was failed twice to detect DDoS attacks and failed to protect our resources and systems where inaccessible during DDoS attack simulation **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS WAF has feature to use third party mannaged WAF rules, because which we can incorporate third party mannaged rules by key players in industry like F5, Imperva, Cloudflare. This reduses possibility of buying third party products and fully relly on AWS native WAFs. AWS Certificate manager helps us to create, manage & store custom SSL certificates of all our applications. AWS KMS gives liberty to save, create, import custom encryption key in symmetric or assymetric way that too in same or cross account. ### 2. Easy to manage your security keys to control the access over your aws services. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yuvraj S. | Data Scientist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** It's a very good service for those who looking for cryptography security for their services. It's very useful management within the aws which provide encryption and description of your data and keep data secure when you send data or save data over the servers. **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** As of now I don't see many problem with this. **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** For one project I was looking to send my data across the server's with security like no one can read or modify my data without my permission as data was very sensitive. For this task I choose this key management system as it was easy to use and can apply and control the user management as well within this one. ### 3. Easy to use and well integrated with rest of AWS services **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Was very easy to create a key to be able to encrypt/decrypt an rds database. The granularity of security is also good to decide who has access to the key. The built-in key rotation is also a nice feature. **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Nothing at the moment. It was very easy to setup for my needs and did not have any problems yet. **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralizing keys in AWS. Do not have to use external systems to maintaining this portion and the integration is great. ### 4. 100% Uptime gives you peace of mind **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** The service uptime gives you peace of mind and that is very important for such a critical service like key management. If your whole infrastructure is based in AWS, then KMS is a no brainer but keep in mind that this service will tie you up to it forever. **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** The somewhat cumbersome API when you don't use the java SDK. I mean, I have used the node.js SDK and it works fine but the API is not very "idiomatic" and looks like a JAVA SDK. **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** KMS will solve the generation and storage of keys for you, also will solve you any encryption need as long as you don't need to do a ton of encrypt/decrypt operations. ### 5. Best in class encryption for your data on AWS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arpit Y. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** AWS KMS service is one of the best encryption services available on AWS for encryption. AWS KMS is use its own AWS-managed keys for encryption for your data. In my view, it is better than AES -256 based encryption because we do not need to manage any key in KMS. AWS will do on behalf of you. KMS can also be used to encrypt your data in the S3 bucket. In some of the cases, a lot of sensitive data like the details of users can also be encrypted using this. It is a better alternative to cloud HSM. **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** AWS KMS service pricing depends upon the number of keys generated, in some cases you may need to pay a lot of money. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Key Management Service (KMS):** Anyone can use this AWS service by the AWS web console. You only need to log in to your AWS account and search KMS. **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** One of my clients wants to encrypt his all the data on S3 bucket, we resolve this problem using KMS encryption on S3 bucket data. ### 6. Great service to encrypt data in aws **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2020 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** This service is the enabler for all other services that AWS uses to encrypt your data, eg s3, rds, kinesis and such. I use it for parameter store to encrypt api keys and its really simple and does it job good for that **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** I dont really have anything that I believe I dislike with the service **Recommendations to others considering AWS Key Management Service (KMS):** This is a must have service when you edploy own code **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** To encrypt different keys and password for applications instead of having them in clear as env variables ### 7. Pretty and Easy to Use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** We have a policy where Bring Your Own Key is required for confidential data in the cloud and AWS has streamlined the process for us. **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** When we import an encryption key for usage in another account that other account is not able to reference our key by key alias natively. It should be easy enough for AWS to add the ability to reference an encryption key by key alias across accounts. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Key Management Service (KMS):** The cloud space is constantly growing and we have found that the documentation does not always keep up with how quickly everything else progresses. If you see AWS documentation stating something is not possible, please make sure you submit a ticket to AWS first as we have found that a feature may be available, but they did not have time to update the support materials. **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** This give us the ability to migrate data and applications to the cloud, but still protect that data with a key that we own and manage. ### 8. Dead Simple Encryption Service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erik N. | Senior Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Ease of use. There can be a lot of overhead to managing secrets. You need to make them available for people and processes that should have access, while restricting access for nearly everyone else. There are lots of options out there for how to do this, but the fact that KMS is already bolted into so many of Amazon's service offerings, and the fact that they support KMS client SDKs for every relevant programming language, plus command line tools makes enterprise level encryption available to any project or organization already using AWS. **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Certain Client SDKs are painful to use. Having played with python and nodejs SDKs, i've found that example code is hard to find and I've not had great success with these SDKs. AWS Service integration, CLI usage, .NET and JAVA are all seamless which is why I reference ease of use as my favorite aspect of KMS. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Key Management Service (KMS):** If you are already deploying within an AWS cloud environment, KMS is an easy way to handle encryption across your infrastructure and your operations users. **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** committing encrypted secrets to source control terraforming databases without exposing password details sharing encrypted secrets with other users authenticating administrator access to APIs - if you have permissions on the key, you can encrypt a timestamp and pass that as authentication ### 9. KMS could be best solution to Data encryption and decryption **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** I like the Master key and Data key concept in KMS. this is very easy to implement and I like AWS UI to manage it. **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** AWS should have been provided more c# samples to use all its features. **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** to save all the Service account credenatils we have used the KMS and aslo there is good support from AWS. ### 10. It's a really easy way to centrally manage your keys **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gabriela R. | Directora de artes, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** The key rotation does not need to decrypt and re-encrypt the data that was encrypted by the key. Old keys are still available to decrypt the data and the newly encrypted data will use new keys. It has automatic key rotation that is essential for compliance purposes. It does not require configuration to start. **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** KMS gives an easy rotation but you do not have much control. AWS will rotate it for you according to your own schedule annually. You can not force it. In addition, if you import your own keys, you must manage this key rotation on your own, which overrides the nice rotation service provided by AWS and, you must decrypt and re-encrypt the data encrypted with those keys. So keep this in mind if you are thinking about using your own keys. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Key Management Service (KMS):** If you are looking for a more robust solution that can store asymmetric keys or require a Hardware Security Module, KMS may not be for you. You will have to make your own decisions about whether KMS makes sense for your organization. **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** WS KMS is a really easy way to centrally manage my keys, it helps me protect the data I store. ### 11. KMS - Simple, secure and powerful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Utkarsh S. | Leaders in Innovation Fellow, Public Policy, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** The ability to securely store keys and use them for encrypting apps and storage is unarguably the best feature of the AWS KMS. Within the AWS ecosystem the integration and interoperability is remarkable. **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Nothing that I can think of, the service is really straight forward and easy to use. **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** One of the biggest: providing enterprise grade security to the clients without going through any hassle. Allows the businesses to focus on their core offerings. ### 12. Easy, AWS hosted security **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Easy way to store your key pairs for use on EC2, Lambda, and a large amount of other assorted AWS services for almost no charge. Keeping track of keys on premise is dangerous and risky, beacuse it gives another system that you need to protect in order for your infrastructure to remain safe. through KMS, you can store all the keys that you need in AWS itself and therefore extend your security blanket to your keys as well. **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Not much. The UI and AWS console is not very intuitive and can be confusing at times. I would really like to see a redesign of the UI from AWS as it is needlessly complicated and incredibly slow for a select number of operations. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Key Management Service (KMS):** Definitely switch to it if you want to have your teams manage their own keys and do it easily. If however you want to have them manage keys that are on your own premise, it is better to keep them out of KMS and just manage them yourselves to prevent another possible point of access by unauthorized users to your important keys. **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving security problems. It is a lot easier to manage security when your keys are all contained under the AWS shared responsibility model with all your other infrastructure. it also means that teams are more willing to increase security because managing keys is so much easier and less of a hassle. ### 13. KMS **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** I love the fact that we keep all of our keys in one place, and they're easily reachable via most of our internasl systems on an encrypted level. **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** I dislike the pricing schema for it. Chargina on a per key model is simple, but illogical for larger companies to use. We have thousands of keys that we'd like to live inside of the system, but it's too expensive to justify. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Key Management Service (KMS):** definirely pay attention to the pricing, and take the extra time to build in automation to work with KMS effectively. **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** cert store, api key store, etc. ### 14. helps in different key management system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** safdar q. | Sr Cloud hosting and sytem engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** we have multiple products and for those can use different kms keys or share it depending upon environment **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** I was able to create two kms with same name. had to delete one of those before i could proceed with using the right one. **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** encrypting ### 15. KMS Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** I love how easy it is to work with encryption keys. I love that metadata is saved with the key so there is not much information that is required to perform a decryption operation **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** I don't like that root is preprovisioned in the kms key policy. I understand why but I feel like enabling iam access is something that should be done explicitly by the admin and not a default. **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** encrytping secrets for all my cloud apps ### 16. Great For Keeping Application Safe **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gourav D. | MS Student, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** -Easy to plug into application using AWS sdk -Support for nearly All OS -Good key rotation policy -Lot of big and secure Applications trust KMS **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** -Default key rotation policy is not ideal -Could look confusing at first usage -AWS UI is still for power user, newbies could struggle **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping logs and metrics encrypted on android device ### 17. key management service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Security and Investigations | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** simple to use and integrate with your application flow **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** more technical documentation explaining more on the hsm part **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** crypto key management - most secure key storage ### 18. Security **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel L. | Senior Software Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** When you need a good private key to secure your data, you've got it! **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** A little hard to use at first. But in the end I figured it out. **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Security ### 19. Secure Your Secrets with Ease **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Use your IAM roles to manage your secrets and limit the blast radius. Works great to manage configuration securely. **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Needs reporting of assets, ie certificates with private key, that would be better managed in ACM. **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Avoids custom secret protection / encryption that may not scale easily. KMS scales easily with company specific run books. ### 20. the most useful service of Amazon **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** I like this service because for me is the most useful of amazon When you find problems to get in your account in this website. The system that they use on the validation is one of more secure besides They protect your personal data that they store **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** I do not like that the code they send you expire so quickly, it would last more time **Recommendations to others considering AWS Key Management Service (KMS):** I really recommed this efficient service because it will help you without problems **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps people to access on your account in case of problem, It is a very secure service, I really recommend you because It is integrated with cloud trail are linked on your necesities ### 21. Encryption is key **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Love that Amazon KMS is fully managed by the AWS team and helps free up my time and my team's time by owning/maintaining the underlying infrastructure. **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Not many complaints or issues so far. Been pretty happy with it. **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's very cheap, it's owned by AWS, and gives me back more time in my day. ### 22. kms review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** simple easy and secure services to use, sdk is simple usefull and robust. **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Better error reporting, sdk has rate liimiting enabled which took time to find, **Recommendations to others considering AWS Key Management Service (KMS):** great service simple easy and secure **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** authenticating redis cluster. We store passowrd in ssm paramater and pull it to AUTH redis ### 23. We have used it for replacing old technology of Safenet **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** The best part of this product is that it is hosted in AWS. **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** It is sometimes difficult for new comers to learn this tool.Not easy to learn for beginners. **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** The hosting is the best benifit along with hight availability. ### 24. Generally easy and hopefully secure! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Easy to create keys and rotate as per regulatory security needs. Fast to pick up and easy to use with other software. **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Sometimes too secure: a key is only available for download for a very brief period of time. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Key Management Service (KMS):** Would recommend if you have complex security needs. **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** General software security, particularly regarding access for customers and certain members of my company. ### 25. Heavily used **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Ease of using keys and manging at one place **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Nothing specific. It helps us manage them at ease **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing keys at one place and ease of use ### 26. Does its job **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Sporting Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** It is easy to use and reliable, no problems **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** did not envcounter any problems so far, so far positive **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using this for encrypting almost any storage ### 27. Super **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** We used kms heavily in our platform, easy to use **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** nothing wrong we found it, its good , we did not find anhthing **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing keys ### 28. KMS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Publishing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Autorotation of keys and centralized location of keys **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** not being able importing a key into an already existing CMK **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** encryption ### 29. Encryption at rest using KMS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Data security with KMS to achieve encryption at rest **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Nothing at this point for our requirements **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Encryption of data ### 30. Efficient key management service for public cloud (AWS) **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Ease of use, creating keys, rotating them per best practices under the well architected framework **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** UI can be improved as a larger number of key management needs more of a dev ops feel **Recommendations to others considering AWS Key Management Service (KMS):** Try KMS in a lab scenario or dev environment before moving to larger workloads, signing certain calls for S3 endpoints/solutions **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** KMS was implemented for a customer solution for a proof of concept utilizing tokenization. ### 31. KMS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** The best way to protect data and store and manage keys. It helps us meet regulatory and compliance needs. Want to have a centralized management for keys this is the way to go. **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** There is no major issue that I do not like about this. **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** centralized key management and for generating keys on the fly ### 32. Easy Service To Maintain Security **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2016 **What do you like best about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** AWS KMS has very clear use cases and walks you through exactly what needs to be done to set up keys. After it's been set up, you can assign keys to different applications through a few clicks, and ensures that your applications are always secure the way you want them. **What do you dislike about AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?** Once you generate keys, you cannot download them after the initial download process. Although I dislike it, from a security perspective it makes sense. **What problems is AWS Key Management Service (KMS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm solving the problem of securing my applications. 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