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AWS does not encrypt internal traffic, including traffic between Availability Zones. AZ's are spread over several datacenters, so your VPC traffic (RDS/microser
by e1g 8y ago
AWS does not encrypt internal traffic, including traffic between Availability Zones. AZ's are spread over several datacenters, so your VPC traffic (RDS/microservicers etc) travels unencrypted across multiple physical locations. I consider AWS network assurances sufficient so it's not a problem for our standard threat model, but the auditors got their checkboxes to tick...
- ec109685 8y agoDo you have a citation that data travels among data centers in aws unencrypted? At least between regions, it is encrypted: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-almost-inter-region-vpc-peering/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-almost-inter-region-vpc...