If a link is outside our premises, or crossing an ocean, we encrypt it. For encryption, we use AES-256 again, with MACsec or Optical Layer encryption, with some more clever key agreement schemes that we had to invent! But don't worry, they are reassuringly boring.
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Incidentally "Lever" is named for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavis_Batey …pic.twitter.com/4AxSWVa9h5
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Lever encryption and VPC Encryption or Inter-Region Peering often happen at the same time, e.g. packets crossing between AZs or regions. That's two layers of no-configuration required pervasive cryptography.
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h/t to my colleague and Lever lead David Sinn for all that info!
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Now, none of this means that you should not use TLS or other encryption protocols in your own applications. Network Encryption is awesome, but does not provide anti-replay, or application-to-application authentication. These new protocols are designed to fill gaps.pic.twitter.com/uP9NXXz9sj
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Of course it's great too to have a built-in mechanism to protect legacy traffic that is not encrypted at all.
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These are first features I've ever worked on where is no API, nothing for you to do. This is all under the hood. There is no change to your experience running on AWS. Customers never see the encrypted traffic, we do the encryption and decryption for you.
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All of the encryption and decryption happens in hardware; and for VPC Encryption, it's custom silicon designed and built by Annapurna labs as part of our Nitro security system. That means we can all of this with no impact on performance. We've been in production for months!
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O.k. there you have it. VPC Encryption, Lever Link Encryption, Multi-Party key distribution, AES-256, no API or settings, just "on". AMA.
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Replying to @colmmacc
so does this mean that traffic is now encrypted from one az to another az in the same region? But only if both ends use nitro?
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Lever has you covered between availability zones, and VPC Encryption will be added too if the instances support it.
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