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Encryption configuration

Encryption by default

Configure your AWS account to enforce the encryption of new EBS volumes and snapshots. A few notes:

  • You can launch an instance only if the instance type supports EBS encryption when you enable encryption by default.
  • Encryption by default is a region-specific setting.

Follow the Encryption by default instructions or you can use the AWS CLI. For example:

aws --region us-west-1 ec2 enable-ebs-encryption-by-default
Last update: 2024-05-08