This week Amazon Web Services added transparent data at rest encryption capabilities to their Relation Database Service (RDS) MySQL and PostgreSQL offerings. No code changes required! Customer managed keys are used through the AWS Key Management Service, which provides for key creation and rotation, usage policies, and key auditing.
You can learn more about this fantastic new feature for both RDS MySQL and RDS PostgreSQL here: bit.ly/rdsencryption
and more about MySQL and PostgreSQL on RDS here: http://bit.ly/rdsoverview
