blog.trailofbits.com· Aug 5, 2026

A few notes on AWS Nitro Enclaves: KMS integration

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Nitro Enclaves and Key Management Service (KMS) feel like a natural fit: since the KMS can verify attestation documents generated by the enclaves, developers can offload key management tasks from their applications to the AWS-managed service. But integrating an external service with your trusted enclaves comes with new threats, even if that service comes from the same provider. In this blog post—the third in our series on Nitro Enclaves, following our posts on attack surface and images and attes
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