How to create a customer managed CMK in AWS KMS

Question

Hi Team,

I am new to AWS. I don't know how to create a unique customer-managed customer master key. Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can create a unique customer-managed customer master key (CMK) in your AWS account and Region. You cannot use this operation to create a CMK in a different AWS account. The following create-key example creates a customer-managed CMK.

$ aws kms create-key \ --tags TagKey=Purpose,TagValue=Test \ --description "Development test key"