AWS Key Management Service (KMS) Alternatives (January 2026)

AWS CloudHSM provides total access management control and protection for your encryption keys with secure and compliant hardware security modules (HSMs).

With Box KeySafe, you gain independent control of your encryption keys through our partnership with AWS KMS Key Management Services and AWS CloudHSM.

AWS Secrets Manager allows you to rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets through their lifecycle.

Use AWS Certificate Manager to provision, manage, and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates with AWS services and internal connected resources.

AWS Artifact provides on-demand access to select security reports, compliance reports, and agreements with AWS.

AWS Control Tower provides a single location to set up a well-architected, multi-account environment to govern your AWS workloads with rules for security, operations, and compliance.

AWS Cost & Usage Reports contains the most comprehensive set of AWS cost and usage data available, including additional metadata about AWS services, pricing, and reservations.

AWS Lake Formation makes it easier to centrally govern, secure, and globally share data for analytics and machine learning.

AWS IoT Device Defender makes it easier to maintain, manage, and configure security policies for all your IoT devices. Get the tools to identify and respond to security issues.