Alibaba Cloud Key Management Service

Alibaba Cloud Key Management Service is a web-accessible cloud service for managing encryption keys. It supports customer-managed keys, key import, automatic rotation, audit logs, HSM-backed keys, and both listed key types. Default keys are provided at no charge for server-side encryption of Alibaba Cloud services, including free service keys and customer master keys. The Software Key Management Instance costs $500 a month on a prepaid subscription and includes 1,000 QPS, 1,000 keys, 0 secrets, and 0 data keys. The Hardware Key Management Instance costs $1,799 a month on a prepaid subscription, with 2,000 QPS, 1,000 keys, 0 secrets, and 0 data keys. The service offers a free plan alongside paid instance options. Its deployment model is cloud, and paid service starts at 500.0 /mo. These options let teams choose default, software-managed, or hardware-backed key handling.

Alibaba Cloud Key Management Service offers free default keys plus software and hardware instance options. Its rotation, audit, import, and HSM capabilities support structured cloud key management, with paid capacity starting at 500.0 /mo.

It suits teams managing encryption keys for Alibaba Cloud services. It is relevant to organizations needing imported, customer-managed, rotated, audited, or HSM-backed keys.