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- Rotate your AWS Customer Master Key
Rotate your AWS Customer Master Key¶
Feature unavailable in Free and Shared-Tier Clusters
This feature is not available for M0 (Free Tier), M2, and
M5 clusters. To learn more about which features are unavailable,
see Atlas M0 (Free Tier), M2, and M5 Limitations.
When you use your own cloud provider KMS, Atlas automatically rotates the MongoDB master keys every 90 days. These keys are rotated on a rolling basis and the process does not require the data to be rewritten.
Atlas does not automatically rotate the AWS customer master key (CMK) used for AWS-provided Encryption at Rest.
Atlas automatically creates an
alert
to remind you to rotate your CMK every 365 days by default when you
enable Encryption at Rest for an Atlas
project.
AWS KMS supports automatic CMK rotation. AWS automatic CMK rotation does not require you to update the Atlas Encryption at Rest project settings, including the CMK ID.
This page explains how to create a new key and update the CMK ID in Atlas to rotate your Atlas project CMK. This method of key rotation supports more granular control of the rotation period compared to AWS KMS automatic CMK rotation.
Cloud Provider Snapshots with Encryption at Rest
For clusters using Encryption at Rest and Cloud Provider Snapshots, Atlas uses the project’s CMK and AWS IAM user credentials at the time of the snapshot to automatically encrypt the snapshot data files. This is an additional layer of encryption on the existing encryption applied to all Atlas storage and snapshot volumes.
Atlas does not re-encrypt snapshots with the new CMK after rotation. Do not delete the old CMK until you check every backup-enabled cluster in the project for any snapshots still using that CMK. Atlas deletes backups in accordance to the Snapshot Scheduling and Retention Policy. After Atlas deletes all snapshots depending on a given CMK, you can delete that CMK safely.
Procedure¶
Log into Atlas.¶
Click Rotate Keys for the Encryption at Rest Section.¶
Enter your AWS customer master key ID in Customer Master Key ID.¶
You must update the key policy to give the IAM user supporting Atlas Encryption at Rest the following permissions to access the provided CMK
Select the AWS region in which you created your AWS CMK from Customer Master Key Region.¶
Atlas only lists AWS regions that support AWS KMS.
Optional: Enter the access key ID for the new IAM user in Access Key ID.¶
You can also change the Identity and Access Management (IAM) user credentials used by Atlas to access the CMK.
Optional: Enter the secret access key for the new IAM user in Secret Access Key.¶
Click Save.¶
Atlas displays a banner in the Atlas UI during the CMK rotation process. Do not delete or disable the CMK until your changes have deployed.