AWS – Amazon EBS direct APIs for Snapshots now supports FIPS 140-2 compliant endpoints in the US Commercial and Canada (Central) AWS Regions

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) direct APIs now offer Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS) compliant endpoints in the US Commercial and Canada (Central) AWS Regions. FIPS 140-2 is a U.S. and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information.

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