Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Arvind Chandrasekar

Danny Wei

Sandeep Kumar

Lalit Jain

Sriram Venugopal

Marc Stephen Olson

Varun Verma

Kristina Kraemer Brenneman

Oscar Allen Grim Courchaine

James T Pinkerton

Pavan Kumar Korlepara

Generally described, one or more aspects of the present application correspond to techniques for creating encrypted block store volumes of data from unencrypted object storage snapshots of the volumes. These encryption techniques use a special pool of servers for performing the encryption. These encryption servers are not accessible to users, and they perform encryption and pass encrypted volumes to other block store servers for user access. The encryption context for the volumes can be persisted on the encryption severs for as long as needed for encryption and not shared with the user-facing servers in order to prevent user access to encryption context.

Encryption by default in an elastic computing system

Generally described, one or more aspects of the present application correspond to techniques for creating multiple encrypted block store volumes of data from an unencrypted source. These encryption techniques can use a transform fleet as an intermediary use between the unencrypted source and the encrypted volumes. The transform fleet can obtain data of the volume from one or both of two sources&#x2014;an object storage 'snapshot' a block storage 'source volume'&#x2014;and can then apply the appropriate encryption key for performing the encryption of a particular volume.

Creating multiple encrypted volumes from a single source

Generally described, one or more aspects of the present application correspond to techniques for modifying volume encryption status, either by creating an encrypted copy of an unencrypted source volume or by re-encrypting the replica with a different key than the source volume. This can be accomplished using an intermediary transform fleet that stores the encryption key(s) and performs encryption (and decryption, in cases where the source is encrypted). Further, these techniques can implement a state refresh for any client attached to the volume in order to equip the client to handle the different encryption state of the encrypted volume.

Encryption intermediary for volume creation

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