Key management service for symmetric and asymmetric keys, certificates, and other secret material — pluggable backends include software KMS, HSM via PKCS#11, Vault, and KMIP-compliant appliances. Equivalent to AWS KMS / Azure Key Vault / Cloud KMS in the cross-provider mapping
Jurisdictional exposure
Sub-services (3)
Secrets
Generic secret store covering keys, certificates, passphrases
Orders
Async key-generation requests with HSM backends
Containers
Grouped secrets (e.g. certificate + private key + chain)
Tags
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